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Representative Women 
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FRONTISPIECE. 

Contents - 3-5 

Dedication --- 6 

Preface - 7 

Mrs. Bryan Wells Collier _ 9 

Introduction _ 11-14 

Mrs. A. McD. Wilson ___ J. _ 16-19 

The Origin of Memorial Day_ 20-21 

Mrs. Roy Weeks McKinney _ 22-25 

Origin of the Daughters of the Confederacy_ 26-27 

Miss Daisy M. L. Hodgson _ 28-29 

Mrs. Joseph H. Morgan- 30-32 

Mrs. Sarah (Richardson) Gabbett - 33 

Mrs. Rosa Marion Bowden- 34-35 

Mrs. Ellen Peter Bryce - 36-37 

Mrs. J. S. Allison- 38-39 

Mrs. Sarah Dabney Eggleston_:_ 40-41 

Mrs. W. D. Ellis _ 42-44 

Mrs. Lula Kendall Rogers_ 46-48 

Mrs. Herbert Mitchell Franklin _ 50-52 

/ Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford _ 53-54 

What a Memorial Woman Did ..._ 55 

Mrs. William A. Wright_:_ 56-57 

Mrs. J. D. Beale - 58-60 

Mrs. James Carter Cook _ 62-64 

Mrs. Hoke Smith _ 66-68 

Mrs. Thomas James Collier _ 70-72 

Mrs. Andrew Baxter _ 74-75 

Miss Alice Baxter_ 76-77 

Mrs. Mary E. Bryan _ 78-79 

Mrs. Samuel Daviess Blackburn - 80-81 

Mrs. William Fort Williams_ 82-83 

Miss Mary B. Poppenheim - 84-85 

Mrs. Agnes Walker Halliburton _ 86-87 

Mrs. C. Felix Harvey_’_ 88-90 

Mrs. Emmet Lee Merry- 92-93 

Mrs. Z. I. Fitzpatrick- 94-98 

Mrs. James Koger - 98-99 

Mrs. Charles T. Trabert -100-101 

Mrs. Charles R. Hyde_102-103 

Mrs. James Harvey Crenshaw -104-105 

Mrs. George T. Fuller-106-107 

Mrs. Solon E. F. Rose-108-109 

Mrs. E. W. Warren --110-111 

Mrs. C. C. Sanders -112-113 

Mrs. Jacksie Daniel Thrash -114-115 

Mrs. James Marion Hicks-,-116-117 

Mrs. Frank G. Odenheimer-118-13 9 

Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison Beal -120-121 

Mrs. Fred A. Woodard_ 122-123 




















































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Mrs. Oscar Barthold _124-125 

Mrs. James Henry West_12'6-127 

Mrs. E. L. Connally_128-129 

Mrs. Jeanie Daviess Blackburn-130-131 

Mrs. Adrian Wilbur Argo_132-133 

Alabama C. of C.-134-135 

Mrs. James Louis Stunston _136-137 

Mrs. Joseph Henry Johnson _138-139 

Interesting Facts from Miss Mildred Rutherford -140-141 

Mrs. Augusta Ellis Moore -:-142-143 

Mrs. Lollie Belle Wylie -144-145 

Mrs. James Henry. Parker_-146-147 

Mrs. Walter Mathews_148-149 

Mrs. Alexander B. White -.—150-152 

Shiloh—Monument _ 153 

Shiloh—Artillery and Infantry_ 155 

Shiloh—'Victory Defeated by Death - 157 

Shiloh—Cavalry and Officer _ 159 

Honor Roll _ 161 

Mrs. Frank Harrold-162-163 

Mrs. Paul B. Trammell _164-165 

Mrs. R. Philip Holt-166-167 

Junior Bethel Heroes Chapter Report_168-170 

Maj. Orren Randolph Smith _172-174 

Maj. Smith’s Own Story - 176-177 

Mrs. Maurice J. O’Neil __178-179 

Mrs. Lucian Lamar Knight _180-181 

Mrs. Zebulon Walker _ 182-183 

Mrs. W. P. Cobb _ 184-186 

Marker Unveiled___ 187 

Mrs. Mary Ann Lamar (Cobb) Erwin- 188 

Miss Adeline Baum _ 189 

Mrs. Bennett Battle Ross -190-192 

Mrs. Sydney Perry Cooper_194-195 

Elizabeth Renfroe Cooper _196-197 

Mrs. Roscoe Hall Chesley -198-199 

Mrs. Julian C. Lane _^_200-201 

Mrs. W. C. Martin _202’-203 

Mrs. Walter P. Andrews _ 204-205 

Winnie Davis Chapter C. of C. _206-207 

Mrs. Peter J. Nix _208-209 

Mrs. Robert S. Pierce _210-211 

Mrs. Madge D. Burney _212-213 

Daisy McLaurin Chapter C. of C. _214-215 

Mrs. J. Sumter Rhame_216-217 

Fort Sumter Chapter C. of C. _218-219 

Mrs. Walter Scott Coleman _220-221 

Mrs. Thomas Wood Parry _222-224 

Auxiliary to U. D. C._ 225 

Miss Lillie Martin _226-228 

Mrs.. Fannie Ransom Williams_230-231 

Mrs. Wylie Hart Terry _232-233 

Mrs. Sarah Frances Forsyth _234-235 

Mrs. Flora McDaniel Pitts_236-237 

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Mrs. Frank Tracy- 

Mrs. Charles M. Roberts - 

Mrs. John A. Perdue - 

Mrs. Larkin D. Watson - 

Mrs. Janies E. Hays - 

Mrs. J. D. Franklin - 

Mrs. J. R. Mobley--- 

Mrs. William J. Harley--- 

Mrs. Robert M. Herron- 

Mrs. J. C. Foster- 

Mrs. N. I). Denson-1- 

Mrs. Richard Sykes- 

Mrs. Charles F. Rice-- 

Mrs. J. L. McWhirter- 

Mrs. W. L. Hines- 

Mrs. Roberta Harris Wells - 

Mrs. H. H. Tift - 

Mrs. Janies F. Wiley- 

Mrs. Emily Wakefield Wickliffe — 

Mrs. Sam Wilson -- 

Miss Virginia Durant - 

Mrs. Frank Tillar- 

Mrs. William Hansen - 

Miss Willie Fort Williams- 

Home of Gen. Samuel D. Blackburn 

Mrs. Harriet Tucker Hawkins- 

Mrs. J. W. Wilkinson- 

Mrs. Susie Tondee Allen- 

Mrs. Joseph H. Heard i- 

Mrs. Margaret Cloud Tuttle- 

Mrs. Mathias Menger- 

Mrs. Lora Gaines Goolsby- 

Miss Pauline Mallet- 

Mrs. A. J. Sproles- 

Mrs. Fred Walter Purdy-.— 

Mrs. Nancy Howard Bush- 

Mrs. A. O. Woodward- 

Gray Poole- 

Mrs. Frank Sayre Leach- 

Mrs. J. S. Nichols- 

Mrs. W. L. Grice- 

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Dedicated to 


THE CHILDREN OF THE CONFEDERACY 





Preface 


It has been to me a deep joy to have had the privilege of recording 
a few of the sketches of our mothers of the Confederacy. To me you 
will ever hold that place in history that recalls the golden dreams of 
a noble past, filled with memories that will never die, because they 
cluster about things immortal. 

Through four long years you spent your days in sacrifice, toil, and 
sorrow; like an angel of mercy you stood by the side of your hero in 
gray, whose genius made glorious every page of history and ‘whose 
heroic statue stands undimmed in the sunlight of today. 

Modest simplicity was the charm of your life; it led you untouched 
through scenes of havoc and destruction. And by your loyal devotion 
and unselfish love you gave to us, your children, the sweetest chapter 
in history, and to the world our first memorial day. , 

I could think of no sweeter way to pay a tribute of love to you than 
to place on the pages of history a faint outline of the work of your 
children “The Memorial Women and Daughters of the Confederacy.” 
They are standing on the highest peak of the mountain and have caught 
the vision of the world; they have honored the past by marking the 
earth where our blood was shed with the most beautiful monuments the 
hand of the sculptor could carve; they have established schools in the 
blue of the mountains that are making eternal kingdoms; they have 
crossed the ocean in time of war and responded with the noblest hearts 
to the cry for help. In their glorious work they have reflected your 
beautiful life that will keep alive the memories and dreams of our 
Southland that you loved, and we love, so well. 

We will walk the paths your feet have trod 
Throughout the coming years; 

We will offer our silent prayer to God 
Mingled with flowers and with tears; 

We will take our children by the hand 
To the lone grave over the hill; 

We will look far away to another land 
And know you are with us still; 

We will strew the graves of our noble dead 
With the flowers we gathered for you. 

Then it will seem but yesterday you said, 

“The Red, the White, and the Blue.” 


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Introduction 


It was a former Senator from New York, the eloquent 
Chauncey M. Depew, who said on one occasion that, during the great 
sectional conflict in America, there was produced at the North no coun¬ 
terpart to the Confederate woman. Coming from one who was not of 
the South, and who spoke from an exalted seat of authority, this tribute 
is generous. It proclaims a warm heart and a liberal mind. But never 
was a compliment more fitly bestowed. As a sober statement of fact, 
it is true to historic truth; it is absolutely just; it invites the most 
searching analysis. 

The South was the area of invasion. Perhaps nine-tenths of the 
battle-fields of the war were embraced within the Confederate bound¬ 
aries. In an area of country, exposed to the constant fire of a devastat¬ 
ing host, it was the lot of the Southern woman, in a peculiar sense, to 
endure the bitter agony of the Garden—those of her loved ones strong 
enough to protect her, all at the front; only a retinue of faithful slaves 
to guard the mansion, with its dependent inmates. But her lone 
Gethsemane lasted for more than a single night. It endured through 
four long years, of peril, of sacrifice, and of suffering—till the Calvary 
of the Southern Cross was reached at Appomattox. Nay, longer it 
continued on down through the terror-haunted days of Reconstruction; 
and to do that period justice is needed the poet of Pandemonium and 
the painter of “The Last Judgment.” 

But lineage, tradition, training—all these served to equip her for 
the ordeal. She was a rare type, this gentle product of our Southland—- 
let us call her the magnolia grandiflora of a race of Cavaliers. She in¬ 
herited beauty—not alone of the kind which attaches to person, though 
in superlative degree she possessed that—but beauty of mind, beauty 
of soul, beauty of character. These combined to lift her attractions to 
a higher power and to give her the exquisite charm of loveliness. Hers 
were the Spartan traits of an Old South—endurance, courage, forti¬ 
tude, superiority of mind—traits which compelled respect even from 
strangers, which inspired reverence in her children and loyalty in 
her slaves, and which secured for her the good-will of her neighbors. 
But she also possessed the strength which is born of prayer, the tran¬ 
quil calm which comes from faith, and the serene smile, whose divine 
source is love. Whether in a pillared mansion or in a lowly cot, 
whether at home or abroad, whether in dispensing hospitality to her 
equals or in bestowing favor upon her dependents, she was everywhere 
and always a queen; and whatever she said or did, bore the baronial 
hall-mark of the old manor and told of the gentle molds of ancestry 
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It was said of Hotspur that 1 ‘ by his light did all the chivalry of 
England move, to do brave deeds;’’ but the animating spirit of the 
South—from Sumter to Appomattox—was the Confederate woman. She 
seemed to embody the principles for which he fought—to furnish the 
golden casket in which his gems were enshrined. With sublime self-ab¬ 
negation, mothers sacrificed their sons, maidens their sweethearts, sis¬ 
ters their brothers, wives their husbands, upon the altar of Constitu¬ 
tional Freedom. If knights were never braver, it was because vestals 
at the shrine were never purer—never more unwearied in keeping alive 
the temple fires. It was to defend them that the Southern soldier 
fought. It was to protect his loved ones and to keep his hearth-stone 
inviolate, that he went to war; and, in safe-guarding his holiest treas¬ 
ure from harm, no Israelite under Joshua ever fought more bravely for 
the Ark of the Covenant. 

Well she deserved such homage. Her soul was in the cause to which 
she gave her dearest earthly belongings. She was the last of all to 
surrender; and even when defeat was lettered upon our flag—when its 
tattered folds were drooping and its ragged followers were few in num¬ 
ber and faint with exhaustion, she held out still, and even pledged her 
trinkets and her jewels that failure might not come until the resources 
of devotion were exhausted. 

The soul of the Southern woman! It blazed on the firing line of 
battle. It hovered over the sleeping bivouac in which the weary sol¬ 
diers dreamed of home. It paced the sentinel rounds of the camp. It 
inspired Lee to write that glorious order at Chambersburg—a model 
for his enemies—in which he forbade a single act of vandalism by his 
men while in the country of the foe. It hallowed and preserved every 
letter from the front. It treasured ten thousand locks of hair—ten 
thousand faded photographs; at ten thousand gateways, it kept tryst at 
twilight, and in ten thousand windows, it kept unwearied watch tiii 
dawn. It busied itself in making garments for the soldiers at the front. 
It bent over the wounded and the dying, on the battle-field and in the 
hospital. Hourly, in a never ending prayer to God, through the day and 
through the night, it winged its flight to heaven, to find composure in 
a peace beyond the stars. It gathered up the hallowed remnants of the 
heroic slain, lifted slabs above the lowly mounds, inspired the beautiful 
custom of Memorial Day, and lovingly, through all the years, has kept 
the hillocks green. It was the soldier’s golden spur of knighthood; his 
reward in victory; his solace in defeat; while even in surrender it 
buoyed him with hope, till he saw in prophecy a New South rise and 
on the horizon in Virginia, he caught— 

“The maiden splendor of the morning star.” 

Our war-queen of the Sixties! God make us worthy of her gentle 
memory—emulative of her sweet loyalty—and true to her heroic tra¬ 
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them all over the land—from the Patapsco to the Rio Grande; and 

long may they tower and whiten in the Southern sun! 

But better than inanimate marble or “praise encumbered stone’’ i& 
a living monument. Such is the tribute which, in this rare work, is 
herewith presented to the public by its gifted author. It is a fit 
monument to the Confederate woman, because it enshrines her soul. 
It is spiced with the aroma of her brave deeds. It tells of her beau¬ 
tiful devotion to the South, in days of trial, of her patient suffering, 

of her sublime unselfishness. This volume is a rich store-house of me¬ 
mories—a portrait gallery, in which the reader at will may wander, 
perchance, to make new friends, but recognizing upon the walls many 
familiar faces. These are Dixie’s own daughters, all of them cast in 
the gentle molds of our beautiful Southland, and all of them true to 
its best ideals and inspirations. 

Only one in spirit akin to these, one of the very elect number, 
could hazard such an undertaking. But Mrs. Collier is of the South. 
Its gentlest aristocracy is in her veins; and she brings to her sacred 
task a heart of tenderness, filled with all its memories and dowered by 
all its muses. It has long been her dream to produce something truly 
worth while for the South and the publication of this book is a worthy 
ambition realized and a splendid dream fulfilled. The author is tc 
be congratulated first upon the magnificent vision in which such a 
work had its genesis; and in the second place on the artistic manner iu 
which she has performed her work and brought a task so colossal to 
completion. It is not only a finished product, but a flower of genius. 

Mrs. Collier’s family is distinctively Georgian. Its antecedents 
reach back to the days of the Revolution and into colonial times. She 
inherits those traditions which enable her, with fidelity to truth, to 
portray a great past and to be, in the best sense of the word, an in¬ 
terpreter of her section. There is not a phase of Southern life or 
character, with which she is not familiar; and scarcely a page of 
Southern history whose contents she cannot repeat. Her childhood’s 
home was among the peaks of the Blue Ridge, in the beautiful and 
historic town of Dalton, with its burning memories of Sherman’s 
march. Later, she removed to Washington, Ga., the ancestral home 
of her family, for many generations. Her maiden name was Margaret 
Wootten, and she was the youngest daughter of Dr. John Fletcher 
Wootten, a man of unusual brilliancy of intellect, who served four 
years as surgeon in the Con federate Army, and distinguished himself 
for skill, fidelity and devotion in serving a Cause, which, to him, was 
never lost. He was surgeon in the 3rd Georgia regiment of cavalry, 
a regiment captured at New Haven, just before the battle of Perry- 
ville. The maiden name of Mrs. Collier’s mother was Margaret 
Marion Hendrix. The author was married on December 9, 1897, to Rev. 
Bryan Wells Collier, whose family is likewise an old and distinguished 
one in Georgia. Their two sons are Bryan Wootten Collier, aged 




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twenty, who, when a lad of only sixteen, had held three medals for his¬ 
tory and oratory; and Thomas Wootten Collier, aged seventeen, who wiii 
follow the profession of his two grandfathers, both of whom were sur¬ 
geons in the Confederate Army, and ornaments to a great and noble pro¬ 
fession. 

The Confederate woman. Imagination cannot dwell too tenderly 
upon a theme so inspiring. Reverence cannot linger too fondly at so 
pure an altar. The historian’s pen, which tells us of a Rome and of a 
Sparta—aye, the pen of inspiration which tells us of an Israel—has not 
portrayed her superior, if, indeed, her equal; nor may we expect to find 
it in all the hidden future. It took the civilization of an Old South to 
produce her—a civilization whose exquisite but fallen fabric now be¬ 
longs to the dust of dreams. But we have not lost the blood royal of 
the ancient line; and in the veins of an infant Southland still ripples 
the heroic strain. The Confederate woman, in her silent influence, in 
her eternal vigil, still abides. Her gentle spirit is the priceless heritage 
of her daughters. The old queen passes, but the young queen lives; 
and radiant, like the morning, on her brow, is Dixie’s diadem. 

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MRS. A. McD. WILSON, 

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MRS. A. McD. WILSON. 

PRESIDENT GENERAL C. S. M. A. 

Few women in the South have held more official positions of dis¬ 
tinction or held them with more distinguished ability than has Mrs. 
A. McD. Wilson, President General of the Confederated Southern Memo¬ 
rial Association. 

Margaret A. Wilson, daughter of Elizabeth Pettigrew Thompson 
and Patrick O’Connor, is descended on her mother’s side from colonial 
and Revolutionary ancestry which includes the families of Thompson, 
Wade, Gibbs and Weeks of Virginia, and on her father’s side from 
Roderick O’Connor, the last reigning monarch of Ireland. She was 
born at Gainesville, Georgia. In 1862 her family removed to Atlanta, 
where she nas since resided. She was educated in the private schools 
of Atlanta and finished at the Young Ladies’ Seminary under Pro¬ 
fessor and Mrs. Hale. In 1875 she was married to Arthur McDermott 
Wilson, a prominent financier and business man of Atlanta, by whom 
she has one son, Arthur McDermott Wilson, Jr. Her father, Lieuten¬ 
ant O’Connor, under command of General Lucius J. Gartrell, was one 
of five sons who gave themselves to the Southern Cause, and one uncle, 
Captain James O’Connor, fills an unknown grave in the cemetery at 
Camp Chase, Ohio, where many Southern soldiers fell victims to prison 
life. Dr. William Thompson, an uncle, served as surgeon major for 
two years with the Arkansas troops. From this ancestry Mrs. Wilson 
lias inherited qualities of leadership of a high order. 

Her earliest recollections center around the period when as a 
child she made lint for the wounded soldiers by unraveling old linen, 
and going to the hospital trains with her mother to carry soup and 
delicacies to the sick and wounded soldiers. In this way was fos¬ 
tered the loyal and devoted spirit that has made her the splendid 
Confederate Daughter she is. 

When the order came from Sherman for the women and children 
to leave Atlanta, as he would shell and burn the town, with her 
mother and two little sisters in one end of a box car, and the negro 
servants in the other, they fled. One month was occupied in being 
transported the 175 miles to Augusta, Georgia, where the family re¬ 
mained until Sherman had passed on in his work of devastation. 

Mrs. Wilson’s interest in Memorial Day exercises began when as 
a child she assisted in making wreaths to decorate graves, and later 
oecame a member of the Ladies’ Memorial Association, and a Daugh¬ 
ter of the Confederacy. She has been president of Atlanta Chapter 
U. D. C. and served a term of four years as vice president for the 
Georgia Division of IT. D. C. Her election to the high office of 
President General to tlie Confederated Southern Memorial Association 
—the oldest patriotic organization of women in America, and the 
originator of Memorial Day, came as a fitting conclusion to her years 


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of untiring devotion to the sentiments and traditions of the South. 
For four years she held the office of State Vice President of the 
0. S. M. A. 

She rendered valuable service in organizing the first conference 
held by the Georgia Division of Children of the Confederacy, and has 
been honored by having the largest chapter of Children of the Con¬ 
federacy in the South named for her, the Margaret A, Wilson Chapter, 
of Atlanta. Through her efforts as State Chairman for the United 
Daughters of the Confederacy, the money was raised for the Georgia 
window in Old Blanford Church at St. Petersburg, Virginia, and she 
assisted Mrs. Walter D. Lamar, then State President of the U. D. C., 
in unveiling the window. By appointment of State President, Mrs. 
Wilson with four other women was selected to decide on the location 
of the Winnie Davis Memorial, which was given to Athens, Ga. 

After having filled many offices in the Atlanta Chapter Daugh 
ters of the American Revolution, she was elected Regent of the At¬ 
lanta Chapter, served two terms, and later served terms as State Re¬ 
cording Secretary, and State Historian to the Georgia Society D. A. R. 

None the less important has been her philanthropic and civic work. 
Under her guidance the Young Woman’s Christian Association had its 
first splendid success. For twelve years she held the office of Presi¬ 
dent of the Gulf States, which included Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
Louisiana and Mississippi. For two years she was a member of the 
American Committee of the Young Woman’s Christian Association, and 
she was one of thirty women called to New York from various large 
cities for the organization of the National Board, being a charter 
member of the National Board and for four years a member of the 
National Board of the Y. W. C. A. Under her leadership was organ¬ 
ized the Atlanta Y. W. C. A., and she was its first active President 
and is Honorary President for life. 

For four years she was president of the Florence Crittenden Home 
and under her influence the work became a power for good. She was 
elected to the Presidency of the City Federation of Woman’s Clubs, 
an organization of over eight thousand club women, and also served 
two years as President of the Atlanta Woman’s Club. She was the 
first First Vice President of the Atlanta Woman’s Pioneer Society 
and a charter member. She is an honorary member of the Atlanta 
Writers’ Club. It was through her leadership that the home of Joel 
Chandler Harris was saved as a memorial, and Mrs. Wilson has been 
since the organization of the Uncle Remus Memorial Association its 
President, and has been elected President for life to that organization. 
This association was founded over ten years ago. 

A distinguished compliment was the election of Mrs. Wilson to 
membership in the Old Guard, the oldest military organization in 
Atlanta, her election having taken place in 1919. Among other notable 
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Gradv Hospital, and she assisted in making possible the children’s 
ward in that institution. She was also First Vice President of the 
Atlanta Child’s Home and a member of the Advisory Board. 

While through various organizations Mrs. Wilson has accomplished 
remarkable civic, religious and philanthropic work her social life has 
been equally as brilliant. It was through her initiative that President 
Theodore Roosevelt came to Atlanta to lecture on “Joel Chandler Har¬ 
ris,” for the memorial fund to preserve the “Wrens Nest,” the home of 
Mr. Harris, that she was hostess to Mr. Roosevelt in her home. 

Mrs. Wilson is a type of the gentlewoman of the old South. She 
is cultured, widely traveled, both in Europe and America, and divides 
her time between her country home, Ballyclare Lodge, where true hos¬ 
pitality is dispensed and her town home, which is the center of inspi¬ 
ration to her friends. She has the social graces befitting her position, 
and her home is the scene of many brilliant social gatherings. 

In temperament, being of literary taste, she is a dreamer of dreams, 
but in reality she is a doer of things, for she has a wonderful gift of 
leadership which means success in all that she undertakes. 



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THE ORIGIN OF MEMORIAL DAY. 


At the close of the war, the women of - Columbus, Ga., were accus¬ 
tomed to go with choice plants and bright flowers to decorate the graves 
of the soldiers who had died at the hospital at Columbus, under the 
direction of the Ladies Aid Society. One day, when returning from 
this labor of love Mrs. Roswell Ellis, who was then Miss Lizzie Ruther¬ 
ford, remarked that she had just been reading such a beautiful Ger¬ 
man story (The Initials), in which the writer told of a custom of car¬ 
ing for the graves of the dead heroes, and she thought it would be an 
excellent idea to set apart some one day for this purpose at the South. 
Her friend, Mrs. Jane Ware Martin, said the idea was a good one 
and should be carried out, Mrs. John A. Jones also agreeing with her. 
Subsequently Miss Rutherford, as Secretary, called a meeting of the 
Ladies Aid Society at the residence of Mrs. John Tyler, and there 
arrangements were made to establish “Memorial Day. 77 The Aid So¬ 
ciety resolved itself into the “Ladies Memorial Association,’’ whose 
object should be the caring for the soldiers 7 graves, and the decorating 
them with flowers. Mrs. Robert Carter was chosen President, and 
Mrs. Chas. J. Williams secretary. 

In the spring of 1866, a few days after the meeting, while the ladies 
were in the cemetery caring for the graves, Mrs. Lizzie Rutherford 
suggested to Mrs. Woolf oik that April 26th, the day Johnstone surren¬ 
dered, would be a good day for that purpose, and so it was decided. 
Mrs. Williams, the Secretary, was requested to write a letter to all 
the Aid Societies asking them to unite in this custom, and so it hap¬ 
pened that Mrs. Williams and not Mrs. Ellis received the honor of 
suggesting the day. 

The following is a copy of the original letters of Mrs. Charles J. 
Williams, as Secretary of Columbus Memorial Association, to the press 
and ladies of the South regarding Memorial Day, taken from the 
Columbus, Ga., Times. 

Columbus, Ga., March 12tli, 1866. 

Messrs. Editors: The ladies are now and have been for several 
days engaged in the sad but pleasant duty of ornamenting and im¬ 
proving that portion of the city cemetery sacred to the memory of 
our gallant Confederate dead, but we feel it is an unfinished work 
unless a day be set apart annually for its especial attention. We can¬ 
not raise monumental shafts and inscribe thereon their many deeds of 
heroism, but we can keep alive the memory of the debt we owe them 
by dedicating at least one day in each year to embellishing their hum¬ 
ble graves with flowers. Therefore we beg the assistance of the press 
and the ladies throughout the South to aid us in the effort to set apart 
a certain day to be observed, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, 
and be handed down through time as a religious custom of the South, to 






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wreathe the graves of our martyred dead with flowers; and we propose 
the 26tli day of April as the day. Let every city, town and village join 
in the pleasant duty. Let all alike be remembered, from the heroes 
of Manassas to those who expired amid the death throes of our hal¬ 
lowed cause. We’ll crown alike the honored resting places of the im¬ 
mortal Jackson in Virginia, Johnson at Shiloh, Cleburne in Tennessee 
and the host of gallant privates who adorned our ranks. All did their 
duty, and to all we owe our gratitude. Let the soldiers’ graves for 
that day at least, be the Southern Mecca to whose shrine her sorrow¬ 
ing women, like pilgrims, may annually bring their grateful hearts 
and floral offerings. And when we remember the thousands who were 
buried “with their martial cloaks around them,’’ without Christian 
ceremony of interment, we would invoke the aid of the most thrilling 
eloquence throughout the land to inaugurate this custom by delivering, 
on the appointed day this year, a eulogy on the unburied dead of our 
glorious Southern Army. They died for their country. Whether their 
country had or had not the right to demand the sacrifice, is no longer 
a question of discussion. We leave that for nations to decide in fu¬ 
ture. That it was demanded, that they fought nobly, and fell holy 
sacrifices upon their country’s altar, and are entitled to their country’s 
gratitude, none will deny. 

The proud banner under which they rallied in defense of the holiest 
and noblest cause for which heroes fought, or trusting women prayed, 
has been furled forever. The country for which they suffered and 
died has now no name or place among the nations of the earth. Legis¬ 
lative enactment may not be made to do honor to their memories, but 
the veriest radical tha ever traced his genealogy back to the deck of 
the Mayflower could not refuse us the simple privilege of paying 
honor to those who died defending the life, honor and happiness of the 
Southern women. 





3ks McKinney 









REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


MRS. ROY WEEKS McKINNEY 

May Mourning Faris McKinney was born in Kentucky, at tlie home 
of her parents, ‘ ‘ Maple Hall, ’ ’ in Hickman, Fulton county. Her fore¬ 
fathers were at the front in the life of the early colonies and in helping 
establish this great republic. Among her ancestors were the Watson, 
Sandedge and Woods families of Virginia and the Wilsons and New- 
lins of Pennsylvania. One Revolutionary ancestor was Brigadier Gen¬ 
eral James Wilson of Pennsylvania, a signer of the American Declara¬ 
tion of Independence. Another was Captain William Thrift Hughlett, 
who served under General Martin Armstrong of North Carolina and 
later was in the North Carolina House of Commons and the North 
Carolina Senate. His wife was Mary Tate. Coming down the line we 
find her great-grandfather, General Samuel Wilson, fighting in the bat¬ 
tle of the Thames in the War of 1812. 

Her father, Doctor Alexander Allen Faris, was a gallant Confederate 
soldier. He enlisted in Company L, 5th Tennessee Infantry, May, 1861, 
and on October 8 of the next year he lost his right arm and was taken 
prisoner at the battle of Perryville, Ky. When in February, 1863, he 
was thought to be of no further use as a soldier, lie was exchanged and 
given an honorable discharge; but allowances were not made for the 
quality of the Faris spirit and the young patriot, in the language of his 
friend, Captain Henry A. Tyler of Forrest’s Cavalry, “ hiding this paper 
in his inside pocket hastened to Valdosta, Georgia, where he re-entered 
his command and served with valor until the war closed. ’ ’ This same 
spirit was evident in Doctor Faris after the war when he studied medi¬ 
cine and, in spite of the loss of his arm, had become at the time of his 
death, in 1905, the foremost surgeon in Western Kentucky. 

The mother of Mrs. McKinney, Florence Goalder Faris, was also a 
Southern patriot. Her two brothers, one of whom was killed in service, 
were valiant Confederate soldiers. She has been an ardent member of 
the U. D. C., a charter member and officer of the chapter at Hickman, 
where she still lives in the old home. 

It was in this home, in an atmosphere of Southern culture and of 
public service that May Faris was reared. Like all her family she 
was and is a devoted member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Pri¬ 
vate tutors and an extensive library funrished her education until she 
was sent to attend Mrs. M. E. Clark’s Select School at Nashville. An 
unusual side to her training was that obtained from close association 
with her father in the practice of his profession, when very frequently, 
in time of emergency, she assisted him with surgical operations. 

In November, 1901, she married Roy Weeks McKinney, a prominent 
and progressive business man of Paducah. Her two children, Roy 
Weaks and Elizabeth, died in infancy. Since her residence in Paducah, 



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Mrs. McKinney has entered fully into the life of that city. She is at 
present, 1919, president of the Woman’s Club of Paducah, one of the 
influential federated clubs of Kentucky. For two terms she was regent 
of Fort Jefferson Chapter F). A. R. She served the Paducah Chapter 
U. D. C. as its president for two terms and during her administration 
accomplished the unveiling of two handsome Confederate monuments. 
During the recent war she gave her energies without stint, acting as 
chairman of sales, Woman’s Division, in all the Liberty Loan drives 
for McCracken county; chairman Paducah Chapter U. D. C. Red Cross 
unit; chairman War Savings Stamp sales for country districts, Mc¬ 
Cracken county; recording secretary Woman’s Division McCracken 
County Council of National Defense, and as a member of the Speakers ’ 
Bureau of the county made fifty odd speeches on national topics. 

Outside of Paducah, Mrs. McKinney is best known for her work in 
the U. D. C. She has always been devoted to anything connected with 
that organization and -with the Veterans. She has attended many State 
and general reunions and is chairman of the Advisory Board of the 
splendid Confederate Home of Kentucky. From October, 1905, to Oc¬ 
tober, 1907, she was president of the Kentucky Division U. D. C., pre¬ 
siding at the conventions at Pewee Valley and at Paris, Kentucky. Her 
record in the General Division has been one of loyal service as follows: 

Chairman General History Committee, 1905-6 and 1906-7, under Mrs. 
Lizzie George Henderson and Mrs. Cornelia Branch Stone. 

Chairman General Finance Committee, 1909-10, under Mrs. Cornelia 
Branch Stone. 

Treasurer of the Shiloh Monument Committee from the organization 
of the Committee at Norfolk in 1907 until the work was completed 
May, 1917. 

Recording Secretary General, elected at Little Rock, November, 1910, 
served three terms, recording the conventions at Richmond, Washington 
and New Orleans. 

Chairman General Committee on the Monument at Jefferson Davis’ 
birthplace in Kentucky. 

Chairman Credentials Committee of the General Convention at 
Louisville, April, 1919, making its report in full when the convention 
opened, the first time this has ever been accomplished. 

Chairman of various convention committees. 

In her work Mrs. McKinney has never followed the beaten track of 
her predecessors, but adhering to the best traditions of the organization 
she has sought to broaden and improve every branch of it with which 
she has been connected. Perhaps it was in the office of recording 
secretary general she was able to serve the U. D. C. for its greatest 
benefit. She collected, renovated, identified and bound in loose leaf 
volumes all the charter applications and valuable papers hifherto un¬ 
cared for, and placed in use a ca,rd index of all chapters, managing the 
financial details at the same time so well that the office paid for all 




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printing of blanks and clerk hire and actually turned money into the 
treasury. The responsibility of this office was ever present with her; 
so that in the time of flood she labored all night until noon the next 
day to store in safety U. E>. C. records and kept under her personal care 
all original manuscripts of the organization throughout the two weeks 
of danger that followed. 

An interesting incident in her career as recording secretary general 
happened at Washington, when Mrs. McKinney locked up in a room 
some newspaper reporters until they agreed to omit from their stories 
of the convention certain remarks made on the floor by members, but 
that were not typical of the best in the U. D. C. Again the Faris spirit 
triumphant! 

Mrs. McKinney -was elected president general of the U. D. C. at the 
Tampa Convention, November, 1919. 



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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


ORIGIN OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE 
CONFEDERACY. 

General John B. Gordon, on the way to Atlanta for the unvei.ing of 
Benjamin’s Hill’s monument, April 30, 1886, first used the term Daugh¬ 
ter of the Confederacy. Crowds at every station met the train bear¬ 
ing President Davis and his daughter. At each station calls were made 
for the President to speak. He was very weak, so General Gordon 
stepped to the rear platform at West Point, Ga., and, holding Winnie 
Davis by the hand, explained why the President could not speak, but 
he wished to introduce to them “The Daughter of the Confederacy.” 
Loud cheers rent the air and she was ever after that given that name, 
and every Chapter organized in the U. D. C. is an honor to Winnie 
Davis. 

The next day, May 1, 1886, at the unveiling of the statue, Dr. 
Spalding led Winnie Davis forward, and Henry Grady introduced her 
again as “The Daughter of the Confederacy”—‘(Miss Mitchell’s Geor¬ 
gia Land and People, page 464.) To Mrs. Caroline Goodlett, of Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn., belongs the honor of first organizing Chapters of Daugh¬ 
ters of the Confederacy, for she first attracted public attention in 1894 
to this matter, when in a newspaper article she referred to the Nash¬ 
ville Chapter. It is true that Mrs. Cassidy, of St. Louis, Mo., had sev¬ 
eral months before organized a Chapter of Daughters of the Confeder¬ 
acy, and she should have the honor of organizing the first chapter under 
that name. Mrs. L. H. Raines, of Savannah, Ga., was then prepar¬ 
ing to organize, the thought having come to her unsuggested—yet it 
was Mrs. Goodlett’s public notice in a Nashville paper that started 
the movement, and she should be entitled to the honor and given the 
name of Founder. (Authority for this statement, Mrs. Raines’ letter 
to Mrs. Goodlett, dated Savannah, Ga., April 29, 1894): 

“We are doing all m our power to form the Daughters of the Con¬ 
federacy. Our application for charter will go in this week, and in 
three weeks will be granted. (Mrs. Raines first chartered a chapter ) 
I will notify you fully and will send a sketch of our objects, etc., 
which, I think, should be as near the same with each organization.” 

Also, Mrs. John Overton’s address of welcome in the minutes of U. 
D. C. convention, 1896, states that the Nashville chapter was organ¬ 
ized May, 1893. And it is also true that Mississippi, under the leader¬ 
ship of Mrs. Josie Frazer Cappleman, had organized the Fidelia Circle 
Daughters of the Confederacy, and Mrs. Kate Cabell Currie had a 
chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy organized at Dallas, Texas, 
to build a Confederate monument, and Portsmouth, Va., had a band 
of children named Daughters of the Confederacy and there was a 
chapter at Albermarle, Va.—all formed about the same time, in 1894— 
but as far as can be ascertained no movement to extend the work to 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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other States was made until Mrs. Raines suggested and Mrs. Goodlett 
seized the thought, and she and Mrs. Raines carried it into execution. 

So while the movement started to establish Chapters in one State 
with Mrs. Goodlett the founder of the Daughters of Confederacy Chap¬ 
ters, to Mrs. L. Id. Raines, of Savannah, Ga., must be given the credit 
for suggesting the uniting of chapters of all States into one body— 
hence, she should be given the name of the founder of the United 
Daughters of the Confederacy, and for suggesting one name and one 
badge. 

The authority for this statement is Mrs. Goodlett’s letter to Mrs. 
Raines, Nashville, Tenn., April 24, 1894. 

“Mrs. L. H. Raines: In reply to your letter of the 18th inst., I 
can only say it affords me great pleasure to send you a copy of our 
charter, regulations and rules of our Ladies Auxiliary of the Confed¬ 
erate Home, and am delighted to hear that you wish to organize an 
auxiliary under the name of the Daughters of the Confederacy, which 
I think is the proper name, and as you very appropriately remarked 
we should have one name and one badge all over the South. 

‘ ‘ The ladies of the South ought to organize in one broad sisterhood, 
and band themselves together under one name and throw around it 
such restrictions as would exclude all persons and their descendants—• 
who were not loyal to the South in her hour of need. ” 

Also Mrs. P. G. Robert’s report: Mrs. Robert, of Missouri, was 
appointed to secure all documentary evidence from Mrs. Goodlett and 
Mrs. Raines. This was honestly and fairly done, without bias or prej¬ 
udice. The following is her report: 

“Resolved: That the documentary evidence furnished in the case 
chiefly by Mrs. Goodlett’s own letters prove that Mrs. L. H. Raines, 
of Georgia, first suggested the plan of uniting all the women of the 
South in one organization which has developed the United Daughters 
of the Confederacy. ’ ’ 

Mrs. Raines suggested a meeting at Savannah, Chattanooga or 
Nashville, and Mrs. Goodlett called it in Nashville, September 10, 1894. 

There were present the members of the Nashville chapter, Mrs. J. 
C. Myers, a visiting friend from Texas, and Mrs. L. H. Raines, who 
went for the purpose of organizing. 

The meeting was called in the rooms of the Frank Cheatham Biv¬ 
ouac, U. C. V., and it was Mrs. L. H. Raines, who drafted the Consti¬ 
tution, after the Constitution of the U. C. V., loaned her by John P. 
Hickman, Secretary of the Frank Cheatham Bivouac. 

The officers chosen were Mrs. Goodlett, President; Mrs. L. H. 
Raines, Vice-President; Mrs. J. C. Myers, later changed to Mrs. Kate 
Cabell Currie, Vice-President; Miss May White, Vice-President; Mrs. 
John P. Hickmen, Recording Secretary; Mrs. M. Massey, Treasurer. 







MISS DAISY M. L. HODGSON 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MISS DAISY M. L. HODGSON. 

Miss Daisy Hodgson is a native of New Orleans, where she now re¬ 
sides. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Hodgson. Both of 
these were ardent Confederates, devoted to the cause and rendering 
service to it in many ways. 

Miss Hodgson is a charter and life member of the Ladies’ Confed¬ 
erated Memorial Association, which was reorganized in 1866. She was 
elected a life member along with her mother, who was a patriotic 
worker up to the time of her death in 1894. 

She was Recording Secretary General of the Association for seven 
years during the presidency of Mrs. Sarah Polk Blake, daughter of 
General Leonidas Polk. She continued to hold this office under the 
presidency of Mrs. W. J. Behan, who served as president for eighteen 
years, and she still holds it under the administration of Mrs. A. McD. 
Wilson. 

In March, 1919, she was elected President of the Ladies’ Memorial 
Association of New Orleans. 

While Miss Hodgson has devoted so much time and thought and 
heart interest to the memories of the Confederacy, her activities have 
not by any means been confined to this channel. She has been for 
twenty-five years Recording Secretary of Poydeas Asylum, an insti¬ 
tution for orphan girls. She was state treasurer for eighteen years 
of the King’s Daughters and Sons of Louisiana and a charter member. 
She is Vice President and a charter member of the New Orleans Home 
for Incurables. At all times she maintains her deep interest in church 
work. 

These briefly stated facts give but an imperfect glimpse of the 
many sided life of Miss Hodgson, who may truly be called one of the 
South’s most representative daughters. Her life is full of broad and 
wisely directed activities and her days are full of good deeds and 
brightened by the well deserved honors which her associates have 
delighted to bestow upon her. 




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MRS. JOSEPH HARRIS MORGAN. 

Mrs. Joseph Harris Morgan, nee Miss Eugenia Hamilton Goode, was 
born in Morgan County, Georgia, October 1, 1844. In 1861, when she 
had just passed seventeen, she became an enthusiastic member of 
the Soldiers’ Relief Association, the first woman’s organization for 
Confederate war work. 

Early in 1862 the Atlanta Hospital Association was organized in 
Wesley Chapel, Mrs. Isaac Winship President, Miss Eugenia Hamilton 
Goode Secretary. The duties of secretary included keeping a weekly 
list of all contributions and disbursements to the hospitals, for publi¬ 
cation in the daily paper, the Intelligencer. In this work she became 
familiar with the sufferings and hardships our soldiers endured. She 
held this office until the evacuation of Atlanta. Her remembrance of 
General Johnstone’s retreat from the river Saturday night, July 10, 
1864, is one of the vivid memories of Confederate war times. 

She was married January 11, 1865, to Major Joseph Harris Morgan, 
a Confederate officer, and in October of the same year, after a period 
of refugeeing in Athens, Ga., returned to Atlanta, a city in ruins. 

In February or March, 1866, a stirring and patriotic appeal 
appeared in the papers from the women of Columbus, Ga., to the 
women of the South to organize Memorial Associations in honor of 
the Confederate dead. Mrs. Morgan enlisted her friends, Miss Julia 
Clayton, afterward Mrs. Edward Hoge, and Miss Sallie Clayton, after¬ 
ward Mrs. Roy C. Crowe, and in response to this appeal they had in 
twenty-four hours organized and collected nearly four hundred dollars 
to be used in putting the grounds in order for the memorial services. 
This is possibly the oldest organization of patriotic women now in 
existence. 

In preparing for the first memorial exercises held in Atlanta, Mrs. 
Morgan has declared she could not have succeeded without the assist¬ 
ance of her husband, Major Morgan, who with his own hands painted 
six hundred headboards for the preservation of the names of Confed¬ 
erate soldiers, and in every way possible gave his assistance. These 
two, with other faithful men and women, spent days in preparing 
Oakland Cemetery for the first Memorial Day. Owing to Federal 
instruction, only a song and prayer were permitted. 

Mrs. Morgan was the first acting president, and is now honorary 
president, of the Atlanta Memorial Association. It was through her 
foresight that land was secured from the city which gave a burial 
place for several thousand soldiers who were lying in the trenches, 
and the sale of the remaining lots has made the Association financially 
independent. 

Mrs. Morgan served two terms as President of the Y. M. C. A. 
Auxiliary, and during her administration a debt of several hundred 
dollars was paid and the Rev. Robert Barrett Library was started. 
Later she became President of St. Luke’s (Episcopal) Guild. Her 





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interest in the Atlanta Chapter D. A. R. has been of help to the chap¬ 
ter ’s success. Her kinsman, Dr. G. Brown Goode, of the Smithsonian In¬ 
stitution, enlisted the hearty co-operation of the Massachusetts Exposi¬ 
tion committee and their building, Craigie House, was presented Jan¬ 
uary 1, 1896, to the Atlanta Chapter. 

In 1895 she became a member of the Atlanta Chapter Daughters 
of the Confederacy. Later she was made chairman of the grounds 
of the Soldiers ’ Home. The burning of the first home and the 
rebuilding had left the grounds in chaos, and the clearing of the entire 
grounds and putting in condition for plowing was done at the request 
of Mrs. Morgan by Captain Tom Donaldson. 

Possibly no work that Mrs. Morgan has undertaken has given 
her more pleasure than the organization in 1909 of the Woman’s 
Pioneer Society, bringing together the faithful women of Atlanta, 
renewing the friendships of younger days, recounting pioneer days 
of war and reconstruction times. 

In 1910 Mrs. Morgan was elected Regent of the Atlanta Chapter 
D. A. R. The new chapter house was built during her regency and 
opened on Flag Day, June 14, 1911, at the time of the presence in 
Atlanta of distinguished military guests from all over the country 
to participate in the unveiling of the Peace Monument at Piedmont 
Park erected by the Gate City Guards. The chapter kept open house 
on this occasion. 

In 1920 she accepted the Vice-Presidency of the U. D. C. and is still 
serving in this position. 

Mrs. Morgan has all the sentiment of the ante bellum woman, 
loves home and flowers, is a fond and loyal -friend, conservative in 
thought and speech, and though now advanced in years is interested 
in all the work of her younger friends. She takes pride in the fact 
that she has been able to bear an honorable part in three wars, Con¬ 
federate, Spanish-American and the World War. 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


33 


MRS. SARAH (RICHARDSON) GABBETT. 

FIRST CUSTODIAN OF THE CROSS OF HONOR 

Mrs. Gabbett was the daughter of Dr. Cosmo P. Richardson, of 
Savannah, one of the first captains of the Old Volunteer Guards of 
that city. Previous to his death the Guards presented him with a 
magnificent sword, which hangs today in the Guards’ Armory in Sa¬ 
vannah. After his death they erected a marble monument in Laurel 
Grove Cemetery to his memory. Mrs. Gabbett was very proud of 
this distinguished father, and often spoke of him, and of her brave 
young brother Cosmo who took part in the first bombardment of Fort 
Sumter with General Beauregard, his tutor. 

Mrs. Gabbett’s husband was William Gabbett, an Irish gentleman 
of landed estate. He espoused the cause of the Confederacy, enlisting 
in Cobb’s Legion. Later he was transferred to an engineer corps 
under General Magruder, and afterwards detailed for mining work in 
North Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. At all times he was known 
as a most efficient officer and said to have furnished the governor with 
more ammunition of war than any other officer. His health was in¬ 
jured by exposure during the war. He went to Ireland to look after 
his property there, and he only survived the surrender a few years. 

Mrs. Gabbett travelled extensively after the war, staying a great 
portion of her time in Ireland looking after her landed estates. In 
1895 she returned to Georgia and made Atlanta her home. She united 
with the Daughters of the Confederacy as soon as the Atlanta Chapter 
was organized and was ever enthusiastic in patriotic work. 

When Mrs. Erwin told her in 1898 about the idea of the Southern 
Cross of Honor, Mrs. Gabbett was seized with delight, and urged Mrs. 
Erwin to prepare resolutions and have the Daughters act upon them. 

She discussed with Mrs. Erwin and Mrs. Plane the design of the 
badge, and always spoke of a design after the Cross of Danneburg 
which she sentimentally believed to be the same in large measure 
as the Cross that was adopted. At any rate there is no doubt, as Mrs. 
Erwin says, that she did suggest the Deo Vendice from the Confederate 
Seal to be inscribed around the battle flag. 

The veterans made a great deal of Mrs. Gabbett, and one of the 
camps in Atlanta made her an honorary member of it. She always 
addressed them as “Comrades.” In a speech delivered at Los Angeles 
she assured the veterans that the Cross should be protected. Below is 
an extract from the speech made upon that occasion: 

“I, as Custodian, desire to assure the veterans that every possible 
precaution shall be taken to keep the integrity of the cross inviolate. 
Intended as a gift of love and honor to the brave defenders of their 
rights, the Daughters of the Confederacy shall protect it from falling 
into the hands of the unworthy. To that end, a patent has been se¬ 
cured and certificates of eligibility, duly signed, required from every 
applicant for the Cross. 




MRS. ROSA MARION BOWDEN 



REPRESENtatiye women of the south. 


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MRS. ROSA MARION BOWDEN. 

Mrs. Rosa Marion Bowden, a daughter of the Old Dominion, was 
born in Williamsburg, Virginia, the home of her Colonial ancestors. 
Her father, Johnson Sands, was a descendant of Sir Edwin Sandys, and 
her mother, Rosalia A. (Lee) Sands, a descendant of Henry Lee, a 
member of the House of Burgesses. 

In his native city, Williamsburg, her father held many positions 
of trust and honor, among which was the office of Mayor. 

In 1858 he moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he was residing 
when Virginia seceded. Being physically unable to perform military 
duty, he entered service in the Civil Government, and remained in 
office until the evacuation. At times he responded to calls and donned 
the Confederate Gray in defense of Richmond. 

On May 13, 1861, her brother, Johnson H. Sands, entered the Con¬ 
federate Army as Captain of Artillery, served under General Magruder 
at Yorktown and in the Virginia campaigns, subsequently as Staff 
Officer under General Hindman of Arkansas, serving from Dalton to 
Atlanta, where he was wounded. As soon as he w 7 as able to travel he 
w x as furloughed and on reaching Richmond was made by President 
Davis Confederate States Commander, which position he held until 
the evacuation when he fled South, w T as captured, and at Atlanta was 
paroled as prisoner of w 7 ar. 

In 1861, Mrs. Bowden and other students of the Richmond Female 
Institution, class of ’60-’61, fired by lojmlty to the South, joined in 
making the first Secession Flag to float in Richmond. 

After the Battle of Seven Pines, it w T as Mrs. Bowden’s lot to 
witness many stirring events w r hich followed when the dying and 
wounded w r ere rushed to Richmond and it "was her privilege to assist 
her mother and other ladies in nursing and ministering to the unfor¬ 
tunate ones. 

After her marriage to Tlios. Russell Bow r den, Attorney General of 
Virginia, Mrs. Bowden resided in Washington, D. C., from which place 
she moved to Colorado, where she first began her U. D. C. work as 
Historian of the Margaret Davis Hayes Chapter of Denver, serving 
as such since 1912. In 1916 she was elected State Historian of Colorado 
and is now serving her fourth year, still retaining her position as 
Chapter Historian. 

Mrs. Bow r den is enthusiastic in all U. D. C. work and as State 
Historian lias met with much success in winning honors for her State; 
and it is due to her “special efforts along historical lines” that 
Colorado Division has been for the past three years the proud possessor^ 
of the “ Mildred Rutherford Historical Medal.” 

In addition to her historical work in the U. D. C., Mrs. Bowden 
is Honorary President of Colorado Division U. D. C., a member of 
the Association for the preservation of Virginia Antiquities, and hon¬ 
orary member of the Confederated Southern Memorial Association. 





MRS. ELLEN PETER BRYCE 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. ELLEN PETER BRYCE. 

Mrs. Ellen Peter Bryce, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, comes of distin¬ 
guished ancestry from colonial times down to the present. She 
inherits her patriotic spirit from her noble father, who, when war was 
declared in sixty-one was too old to go into battle, but he was per¬ 
mitted to serve his country by waiting on the soldiers in the hospital. 
In order to do so he had to carry his faithful man servant with him. 
He gave his country six sons in the beginning of the war, and before 
the war closed two younger sons were called into battle. 

As Miss Ellen Clarkson, of Columbia, S. C., a beautiful girl of 
nineteen, the subject of our sketch was married in November, 1860, 
to Dr. Peter Bryce. He had just been elected superintendent of the 
Insane Hospital at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and during his incumbency 
of this position he became known far and near as a distinguished 
specialist in mental diseases, as a scholar and a scientist. 

•v 

It w y as shortly after her marriage that the War between the States 
broke out. By consent of the trustees, Dr. Bryce permitted his beauti¬ 
ful young wife to use one wing of the hospital building for caring for the 
sick and wounded soldiers from the camp near by. Mrs. Bryce was 
the first to join the Soldiers’ Aid Society, which was the first society 
organized for caring for the sick in the army. She was the treasurer 
of this society. 

After the war Mrs. Bryce was an active member of the Ladies’ 
Memorial Association, and was its treasurer until 1896. She was one 
of the women who made possible the erection of the Confederate monu- 
ment in Tuscaloosa in 1896. A picture of this monument, with a sketch 
from the pen of Mrs. Bryce, is found in 1 ‘ Historic Southern Monu¬ 
ments,” compiled by Mrs. B. A. C. Emerson. 

Mrs. Bryce served as President of the U. D. C. at, Tuscaloosa, and, 
refusing the honor of being State President, she is now Honorary Life 
President of the Alabama Division of the U. D. C. and Honorary Life 
Chaplain of the D. A. R. And the children’s chapter of the Daughters 
of the Confederacy is named in her honor the “ Ellen Peter Bryce 
Chapter. ’ ’ ' 

Her distinguished husband, Dr. Peter Bryce, passed away some 
years ago. At the time of his death he was President of the American 
Medico-Psychological Association and First Vice President of the 
Medico-Legal Society of New York. Mrs. Bryce in her seventy-ninth 
year is still active. She attends all monthly U. D. G. meetings and 
generally all State Conventions. She was for three years President of 
the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. In the recent w r ar she 
was an active worker for the Red Cross. 




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MRS. J. S. ALLISON 










REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


MRS. J. S. ALLISON. 

Mrs. J. S. Allison was born January 29, 1850, at Pensacola, Florida. 
Her father was William Youngblood, a native of Charleston, South 
Carolina, a son of General William Youngblood, who commanded all 
the militia in Charleston during the War of 1812. Her father died, as 
did her only brother, before the Southern States seceded. 

She was living at Raymond, Mississippi, when the Federal troops 
passed through on the way to Vicksburg. A hospital was established 
at Raymond which cared for wounded soldiers from both armies, and 
she rendered splendid service in nursing and caring for the wounded. 

She was twice married and is the mother of four children. She 
went into the U. 1). C. on the war record of her present husband, who 
entered the war at sixteen years of age. and was with the Third Ala¬ 
bama Regiment, Wheeler’s Cavalry. She and her husband are both 
ardent Confederates. They have sent their youngest son to France 
where he fought and suffered in the “World War.” 

Mrs. Allison joined the U. D. C. in 1905 as a member of the Henry 
Gray Chapter, Coushatta, Louisiana, and was transferred to the R. J. 
Hancock Chapter, Benton, Louisiana, 1907. She was made Historian 
of the Louisiana Division in 1908, and filled this office with ability 
for eleven years. 






MRS. SARAH DABNEY EGGLESTON 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. SARAH DABNEY EGGLESTON. 


This sketch is given in her own words, written March, 1920, Mrs. 
Eggleston being now in her eighty-second year. 

“I was born at “Burleigh,” my father’s plantation home in Hinds 
County, Mississippi, near the town of Raymond, in 1838. I was the 
eldest daughter of Thomas S. Dabney and Sophie Hill Dabney, both 
Virginians. 

“My father had private teachers for his children. When I was 
sixteen years old I was sent for two years to St. Mary’s, Raleigh, 
North Carolina. 

“In May, 1861, I was married to Lieutenant John Randolph 
Eggleston, at that time an officer on the “McRee, ” sister ship to the 
“Sumpter,” both being fitted out as Commerce Destroyers in the 
Confederate navy. From that time I followed my husband from port 
to port until the end of our war. 

“When the organization of the United Daughters of the Confed¬ 
eracy came into existence I joined in all its work with heart and soul. 
It was my privilege to organize twenty chapters in the Mississippi 
Division. The Mississippi Division honored me by electing me Hon¬ 
orary President of the Division to succeed Mrs. Stephen D. Lee, my 
close friend of girlhood days. 

“But the crowning honor came when I was elected one of the 
Honorary Presidents of the U. D. C., there being only fifteen allowed 
by the Constitution. This I consider the greatest of my life, next 
to that of being the wife of my husband. Since he was called to 
rest I am anchored in Sewanee, waiting the summons to be placed by 
bis side. 

“SARAH DABNEY EGGLESTON.” 

Could devotion to ideals and to loved ones be more beautiful? 

During the war of 1914-18, Mrs. Eggleston knitted for English and 
American soldiers 350 pairs of socks. The accompanying picture 
shows her finishing off the 700tli sock. So beautifully did Mrs. 
Eggleston accomplish her work of “creating” socks that King George 
of England sent to her personally his deep gratitude and his appre¬ 
ciation of her patriotism so marvellously displayed. Verily of such 
choice and priceless spirits came the real Daughters of the Confederacy. 

Mrs. Eggleston’s distinguished husband, John Randolph Eggleston, 
served his country throughout the life of the Confederacy. He was 
in charge of the gun that fired hot shot during the Battle of Hampton 
Roads, on March 8 and 9, 1862, and was especially commended by the 
commanding officer, Admiral Buchanan, for his bearing in battle, 
which had an inspiring effect upon the men. 

J. R. Eggleston died on September 19, 1913, in Sewanee, Tennessee. 
He was borne to his last resting place with the “Stars and Bars” and 
a naval sword on the casket. Bishop Gailor, Dr. Tisdall and Mr. 
Claiborne officiated at the late sad rites. The local Chapter of the 
U. D. C. and the Mississippi Division remembered the sorrow of this 
noble, efficient Honorary President General on this occasion. 








D. ELLIS 







REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS W. D. ELLIS. 

Mrs. Phoebe Prioleau Ellis, wife of Judge W. D. Ellis, of Atlanta, 
Georgia, was a native of South Carolina. She was descended from 
Rev. Elias Prioleau, who in 1687 founded the Huguenot colony of that 
Province, and from Colonel Samuel Prioleau of Revolutionary fame. 
Her grandfather, Judge Samuel Prioleau, held high civic and judicial 
offices in Charleston, and her grandmother was a daughter of Major 
James Hamilton of the Revolution and a niece of Thomas Lynch, Jr., 
signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

During the war Mrs. Ellis, her widowed mother and younger 
brothers and sisters, suffered many privations. They were forced 
to refugee from their home in Beaufort, and never saw their home 
again. Their property was confiscated or destroyed and they were 
left upon their own resources. 

In 1868 Mrs. Ellis was married to W. D. Ellis, a young South Car¬ 
olina soldier, who was commissioned as Lieutenant at eighteen years 
of age and served gallantly in some of the bloody battles on Virginia 
soil and was in a Northern prison when the war ended. About 1870 
they moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where for nearly a half century they 
lived together, respected and beloved by all who knew them. For many 
years her husband was one of the leading lawyers of the State and 
held numerous positions of trust and honor. • Since 1907 he has served 
as Judge of the Superior Courts of the Atlanta Circuit. 

Although a devoted mother and consecrated to the duties of her 
home and the care of her children, Mrs. Ellis was ever faithful to 
the traditions of the Confederacy and loyal and tireless in perpetuating 
the memory of the soldiers who wore the gray. 

When the Atlanta Ladies’ Memorial Association was organized 
in 1884 Mrs. Ellis was a charter member and was elected its first 
Vice President, which office she held until the death of the President. 
She was then elected President of the Association and served as such 
nearly twenty-five years. As a mute testimonial to the labors of the 
Association over which she presided stand the grounds of the Confed¬ 
erate dead in Oakland Cemetery—the stately monuments, the marble 
headstones—the ornate copings—the well kept green swards where 
the unknown dead are sleeping, the calm of the evergreen magnolia 
and the brightness of the spring flowers,—all bespeak louder than any 
words the love, the tenderness and the persevering care that she and 
her associates lavished on the last resting place of the heroes of the 
Confederacy. The magnificant parades organized under her leadership, 
the flow of oratory procured and inspired, have made Memorial Day 
in Atlanta a day of note in the life of the city and have been one 
of the chief means by which the children of the succeeding generations 
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taught by the lives and deaths of those who followed the battle flag 
of the South. 

In a memorial letter Hon. Alex C. King, Solicitor General of the 
United States, said of her: 

“It is a source of satisfaction, if not of comfort, to feel and know 
how fully and how long Mrs. Ellis has lived a life of noble service to 
family, to friends, apd to the community; how she never failed in 
measuring up to every requirement, and the superb example of Southern 
womanhood which she afforded.” 

Mrs. Ellis was born January 31, 1848, in Beaufort, and died June 
9, 1919, in Atlanta. Besides her other many activities in the benevo¬ 
lent and historical associations of the South, she served as Regent of 
the Atlanta Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution and was a 
member and active worker in the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of 
the Confederacy and the Huguenot Society of South Carolina. 








MRS. LULA KENDALL ROGERS 








REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. LULA KENDALL ROGERS. 

Mrs. Rogers comes from an old aristocratic family who trace 
collateral descent from Sir Ralph Lane, Jr., who sailed from England 
with Sir Walter Raleigh in 1585, Her great uncle, Colonel Joel Lane, 
was the founder of Raleigh, North Carolina, her own grandfather, 
Jeremiah Kendall, a soldier of the Revolution, and her great grand¬ 
father, Jesse Lane, fought for liberty at King’s Mountain and Guilford 
Court House with three of his sons. 

Her father, Dr. David Kendall, was one of the most prominent 
physicians of that day. Her mother was reared and educated in 
Athens, then the most noted seat of learning in the State. She received 
her early education under a governess in the home, later attending 
Central Female College of Culloden, Wayland High School of Marietta, 
then to Georgia Episcopal Institute. Afterward she attended the 
oldest chartered college for women in the world, Wesleyan College of 
Macon, Georgia. 

The graduation composition of Miss Lula Kendall was a poem, 
the first ever written at Wesleyan, which Lucian Knight says “was a 
gem meet for the crown of her Alma Mater. ’ ’ 

In early girlhood she showed great interest in the cause of Liberty, 
and when the Mount Vernon Association was organized for preservation 
of Washington’s Home, she was appointed Lady Manager of her part 
of the State, a great honor for one so young. 

Soon this love for her country was brought to a severe test for 
the dark storm cloud of war burst in all of its fury over the Southland. 
Never shrinking from the path of duty, she immediately raised funds 
for equipping regiments, sending them on to defend her native land 
with encouraging words and cheering smiles, presenting “Old Glory” 
in all of its beauty to the Upson Guards. 

Even when traveling the young girls took their knitting along, 
and did all in their power for the comfort of the “Boys in Gray,” 
not only giving of their wealth, but denying themselves of necessities 
in the house for the sake of a brother or lover. This delicate girl 
collected supplies for Mrs. Isaac Winsliip’s Hospital, the first in 
Atlanta, and furnished the bedding and provisions for Beans’ Station, 
a hospital in Tennessee where one of the Upson Companies was 
quartered. 

Colonel P. W. Alexander drew a design of the new flag adopted 
for the Confederacy as soon as it was chosen in Montgomery, and sent 
it to her with directions how to make it. She made one that very 
hour, and this was the first Confederate flag ever made in Georgia. 
A vote was cast by the girls that it should be presented to the finest 
young officer in the Upson Guards. Soon it was gallantly received 
by one who was the most popular in his Company as well as among 
the girls, and while it floated over his tent he was promoted at his 




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first battle between Fort Pickens and Fort McRae for bravery and 
cool action. He was the second time promoted at Cumberland Gap 
and a third time at the great battle of Corinth. Then Captain James 
Henry Rogers came home to claim as his bride the girl who made it, 
which came back to her, a talisman of good luck, and is still treasured 
as a sacred relic. 

This young couple began life in a devastated country. His father’s 
factory and mill were burned in Wilson’s Raid, and their dreams of 
usefulness by their property all laid in the dust, but they were happy 
in each other. A movement during the war w T as organized for the 
purpose of building a boat by the women of Georgia for the Confederate 
Navy, and Miss Kendall w r as among the first to add her contribution. 
Captain Rogers suddenly was removed early in life after a wide influence 
for good in Thomaston, leaving his widow with a family to rear and 
educate. She taught music several years at R. E. Lee Institute, then 
was called to Gordon Institute, Barnesville, Georgia, to take charge of 
one of the Literary Departments. 

On the 27th of March, 1896 she organized in Barnesville, a Chapter 
of Daughters of the Confederacy. For fifteen years she was the 
honored President, and was always in attendance except when sickness 
prevented. She served besides this, as State Recording Secretary, and 
her wonderful “Reminiscences of a War Time Girl,” in her own book, 

‘ ‘ Golden Rod and Cypress, ’ ’ have greatly helped in making true history 
of the war. 

One of her sons is a minister in distant fields, another at work 
in Washington, D. C., and a third she gave to her country to battle 
afar over the seas. After the home nest was broken up in Barnesville, 
she has made her home with her only living daughter, Mrs. II. M. 
Franklin of Tennille, State President of United Daughters of the 
Confederacy—1918-1919. 

Her pupils of Gordon College collected a fund which they named 
in her honor “The Lula Iv. Rogers Scholarship,” and for years some de¬ 
serving boy or girl has had from it the advantage of a good education. 

As she organized a Chapter of Children of the Confederacy, they 
have also named this Chapter for her. 





MRS. HERBERT MITCHELL 


FRANKLIN 



REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. HERBERT MITCHELL FRANKLIN. 

Helen Rogers Franklin is a daughter of Captain Janies Henry 
Rogers and Mrs. Lula Kendall Rogers. Mrs. Franklin was reared in 
Barnesville, Ga., and after her graduation at Gordon College, specialized 
in piano, voice and expression at the Metropolitan Conservatory in 
New York. 

Before her election as State President U. D. C., Ga. Div., she was Presi¬ 
dent of the J. D. Franklin Chapter at Tennille six years, Second Vice 
President Georgia Division two years, First Vice President four years, 
State Chairman Historical Program, six years, Acting Historian one 
year, while Miss Rutherford was abroad, State Editor nearly two 
years. 

In other organizations she was Vice President for Georgia, Tenth 
District, of the Ellen Wilson Memorial Educational Fund, Chairman 
State Historical Program of the D. A. R. two years. She organized 
a D. A. R. Chapter at her home and was Regent four years. She 
assisted in organizing the Tennille Woman’s Club, took the lead in 
organizing a Red Cross Chapter, organized Auxiliaries. As member 
of the Washington County committee, she canvassed the county, held 
meetings and assisted in rallies in every patriotic drive. 

She was State U. D. C. Director in the recent Red Cross member¬ 
ship campaign and represented the U. D. C. on the executive board of 
the Woman’s Committee Council of National Defense. As State Vice- 
Chairman of the Woman’s Liberty Loan Committee, she issued circulars 
to Chapters for each loan. She served as a member of the National 
Speaker’s Bureau by appointment of the Government and made 
addresses in many parts of the State. 

By appointment of the Georgia Historical Association, she was 
State Chairman to collect records of World War work of Women’s 
Patriotic Societies. She has served for years as member of the Board 
of Visitors to the Georgia Normal and Industrial College. She is a 
member of the Colonial Dames. 

In the General U. D. C. she held the office of Custodian of Flags 
and Pennants, is Chairman of Cotton Tax, State Director of the 
Jefferson Davis Memorial, member of the Credentials Committee, mem¬ 
ber of the Committee on Southern Literature. 

When war was declared against Germany, Mrs. Franklin offered 
President Wilson the co-operaiton of the Georgia U. D. C., and during 
the war period, War Relief was the principal work of the Division, 
amounting in value to about $68,000. 

Notwithstanding the immense amount of War Relief accomplished, 
work for Confederate men and women was never neglected, and Mrs. 
Franklin endeavored to make their comfort and happiness a special 
feature of her administration. This year in response to her appeals, 
$1,000 was raised to supply the veterans of the Soldiers’ Home with 





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pocket money. Through the influence of the U. D. C. the Legislature 
voted an appropriation whereby each veteran in the Home will receive 
$1.00 weekly. About eighty boxes were sent to the Home this year 
by the U. D. C. 

Mrs. Franklin is keenly interested in educational affairs, and much 
was accomplished and much new work undertaken during her term. 

She is the author of a number of articles published in various 
newspapers : “Glimpses of Cuba,” “From Empire State to Golden 
Gate,” “Switzerland of America,’ ’ “The Great Northwest,” and 
other travel sketches. Among her poems are “The Confederate Flag,’’ 
“The Georgia Flag,” “Red, White and Blue,” etc. 

Her husband, Herbert Mitchell Franklin, served in the Georgia 
Legislature for a number of years, as did his father and grandfather. 
Mr. Franklin was named for his ancestor, Governor David Mitchell. 
He is also a descendant of the Mercers who established Mercer Uni¬ 
versity. He is president of the F. and M. Bank, lias extensive business 
interests and is quite active in all State affairs. 

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin have three children, Julia, Herbert and 
Graham Franklin. 

The following tribute was written by Mary C. Hornady for the 
Atlanta Constitution soon after Mrs. Frankin became State President 
of the U. D. C.: 

“My ideal woman is about two-thirds heart and Helen Rogers 
Franklin fully measures up. Her heart of gold is big enough for all 
the old veterans, every gray-haired mother and the ten thousand 

Daughters of the Confederacy to find room and welcome. She is 
capable and efficient, but I care most for the deep sentiment which 
is so much a part of her life it gets mixed in like a thread of gold with 
all her planning. Sometimes I fear our Southern women in laying 
stress on efficiency and activity are in danger of losing something 
finer and sweeter. 

“As a merry-hearted girl, Helen Rogers first touched my more 

mature life and the sunshine of her bright and winsome personality 
has enriched all the years. No matter what a woman achieves in the 
world she has failed if in her home she has not helped to create an 
atmosphere of harmony and happiness. Mrs. Franklin’s hospitable 
spirit has made her home a social center, for she is never so happy as 

when giving pleasure to others. In common with her many friends 

I am always pleased when she is honored with high positions of trust, 
but best, the bright, rollicking girl, the tender wife and mother, the 
always loyal friend.” 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MISS MILDRED LEWIS RUTHERFORD. 

Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford was born in Athens, Georgia, a 
centre of culture and a centre also of the finest traditions of the 
Old South. In that city her life has been spent and there she has 
done the work which has won the admiring love of the South and 
established the fame which has passed beyond the seas. Her father 
was Williams Rutherford, an honored leader in educational and religious 
circles. Her mother’s maiden name was Laura Battaille Cobb. Thus 
on both sides of the ancestral line she was joined to two of the oldest 
and most distinguished families of Georgia. 

Her middle name suggests her descent from the Lewis family. 
Both the Cobbs and the Lewises are claimed by the State of North 
Carolina as among the families which have contributed most to the 
upbuilding of that splendid commonwealth. The Lewises had their 
original seat in America at Warner Hall in Virginia. Two great grand¬ 
fathers, Colonel John Rutherford and Major Francis Boykin, rendered 
distinguished service in the War of the Revolution. 

Her primary studies were pursued under the direction of Mrs. 
Elvira Lee, a daughter of President Alonzo Church, of Franklin College, 
later the University of Georgia. When eight years old she entered 
Lucy Cobb Institute, an institution founded by members of her mother’s 
family and of which she and her sister together have throughout the 
years been the presiding geniuses, during which time this school has 
been associated with the highest ideals of true culture. She spent 
here eight years, graduating in June, 1868. 

Miss Rutherford’s mind was early turned in the direction of educa¬ 
tional effort. She began her teaching work in Atlanta, Georgia, 
teaching there for five years, and going from there to become principal 
of Lucy Cobb Institute. After holding this position for sixteen years 
she resigned in favor of her sister, Mrs. Lipscomb, still retaining the 
chair of Bible History and Literature. She became principal for a 
second time in 1908 and for a third time in 1917. She still holds this 
position, while at tile same time teaching Bible, History and Litera¬ 
ture. 

Thus Lucy Cobb has been in a large measure a reflection of the 
personality of Miss Rutherford. The hundreds of young girls who 
have passed through this historic institution have been taught not 
only in the lore of books but in all of those graces which contribute 
to the making of the highest type of Southern womanhood. She has 
in successive years carried parties of students to Europe. To behold 
the historic and scenic riches of the Old World under her guidance has 
been a privilege which scores of Southern women remember gratefully. 

In the field of authorship Miss Rutherford has rendered high and 
enduring service to her section and to the world and to the cause of 
truth. Books which have been the outcome of her work as a student 



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and teacher of literature have been: “English Authors,” “American 
Authors,” “French Authors,” and “The South in History and Liter- 
ature. ” These products of her pen have by the highest authorities 
been accorded a place among the best contributions to the study of 
literature. 

Her lifelong interest in the traditions of the Old South has turned 
her attention in a special way to a study of the South’s place in the 
development of our country. She has been impelled to this by the 
scant recognition which too many American writers of history have 
given to the South’s splendid achievements in the upbuilding of the 
nation. 

The following pamphlets were written to remind the world of 
some things which had been too generally overlooked: “A Measuring 
Rod for Text Books;’’ “Thirteen Periods of United States History,” 
“The Wrongs of History Righted,” “Historical Sins of Omission and 
Commission,” “ The Civilization of the Old South,” and “Jefferson 
Davis and Abraham Lincoln.” In these works she is doing more 
possibly than any single individual among us to correct erro¬ 
neous notions and to set the South and her accomplishments in 
their proper perspective on the pages of history. 

Miss Rutherford was for five years Historian General of the U. D. C. 
and she is Historian for Life of the Georgia Division. She has also 
held the office of President of the Georgia Division and Honorary 
Vice President General of the general organization. 

In the early days of the Young Woman’s Christian Association in 
Georgia, much was due to Miss Rutherford for the very life of that 
organization. She has held a number of high and responsible offices 
in connection with the Y. W. C. A. Other offices which she has held 
have been those of President of the Bessie Mell Industrial Home, 
President of the Athens Mission Board and President of the Athens 
Memorial Association. Such a list of official responsibilities indicates 
at the same time the wide range of her interests and sympathies and 
the widespread confidence in her capacity and her thorough self 
dedication to service for humanity and for truth. 



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WHAT A MEMORIAL WOMAN DID 


In 1907 when the Confederated Memorial Association met at Rich¬ 
mond, one of its delegates, Mrs. J. Enders Robinson, of Richmond, Va., 
offered the following resolution: 

“Be it Resolved, That we, the Confederated Southern Memorial 
Association, in convention, assembled in the city of Richmond, Va., on 
this, the first day of June, 1907, do request the United States Govern¬ 
ment to have the name of Jefferson Davis restored to the table on 
Cabin John Bridge from which it was removed. ” 

Mrs. Robert Emory Park, of Georgia, seconded this motion. 

After it was amended by inviting all Confederate organizations to 
unite with them in the work the resolution was unanimously adopted. 

When President Davis was Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce, 
1857, the Cabin John Bridge was really begun, and on the table his 
name was inserted. It was a lofty stone arch over Cabin John Creek 
that was built in order that water could be supplied to Washington City 
and Georgetown. 

The bridge was completed under President Lincoln’s administration, 
1861, so his name and Secretary of War Simon Cameron’s also appear 
on the tablet. During the War Between the States the completion of 
the bridge was left to Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior. Strange 
to say under his direction the name of Jefferson Davis was ordered to 
be erased. The order was given to Robert McIntyre, the chief engineer, 
by Caleb Smith to erase it. 

Mrs. W. J. Behan, the President of the Confederated Memorial Asso¬ 
ciation at the time of Mrs. Robinson’s resolution, placed the matter in 
the hands of Hon. Adolph Meyer, a member of Congress from Louis¬ 
iana. William H. Taft was Secretary of War at the time. This was in 
1907. He intended as soon as he became President to have it done, but 
the matter was delayed, and six weeks before President Taft’s inaugura¬ 
tion, when Luke E. Wright was Secretary of War, the President, Theo¬ 
dore Roosevelt issued an order to have the name restored. This was 
February 16, 1909. Captain Janies B. Horne, of Moss Point, Miss., was 
the stone cutter employed to do it, and it is stated he sang as he 
chiseled-—he loved Jefferson Davis, and did this work asking no pay but 
simply as a labor of love. 

The matter was wisely kept out of Congress, for there was no desire 
to stir up strife, but to have justice done. On May 19, 1909, the work 
was completed, and the tablet stands restored. 







MRS. WILLIAM A. WRIGHT 







REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. WILLIAM A. WRIGHT. 


Mary Louise Wright, wife to General William A. Wright, Comp¬ 
troller General of Georgia, holds the distinguished honor of being the 
president of the second oldest patriotic organization of women in the 
United States—The Atlanta Ladies’ Memorial Association. 

Mrs. Wright was born in LaGrange at the home of her parents, 
Judge and Mrs. Albert Ewing Cox. On her mother’s side she is 
descended from Julius C. Alford, a member of Congress before the 
War of the Sixties, where 'he was called “The War Horse of Troup 
County. ’ ’ Colonel Alford moved to Alabama and lost his only son 
at the beginning of the Civil War in Virginia, and in memory of him 
equipped and financed a company of soldiers in Alabama, but did not 
live to see the war end. 

Her father, Judge Albert Ewing Cox, was a member of a fine old 
family in Farquier County in Virginia, and was commissioned by the 
Confederate Government to have charge of extensive salt mines in 
Virginia during the war. There he gave valiant service to his country 
and suffered much exposure and dangers until the war ended. The 
mother of Mrs. Wright, was before her marriage to Judge Cox, a 
Southern belle, Miss Juliet Warren Alford, and from her the subject 
of this sketch has inherited much of the sincerity and beauty of 
character that adds to her charming personality. 

Mrs. Wright with becoming modesty tells you that she has not done 
a wonderful work, but those who know her best know that she has 
been foremost and untiring in her service to the South in all that has 
pertained to its weal. As a little child she accompanied her mother 
to attend the sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals, and since 
her earliest girlhood she has been affiliated with the beautiful memorial 
work that has kept alive the tenderest sentiments of the women of 
the South. 

Mrs. Wright was elected unanimously to the presidency of the 
Atlanta Ladies’ Memorial Association after having served for a number 
of years as its First Vice President. She presided over the opening 
meeting of the Confederate Reunion in Atlanta in 1919, and was 
hostesa at several brilliant social functions during that time. 

Her first marriage was to Mr. James H. Sledge, by whom she 
had one son and one daughter, James H. Sledge, Jr., and Inez Sledge, 
wife to A. B. Bryan of Clemson College, South Carolina. 

The patriotic work begun by Mrs. Wright under her mother’s 
influence has been faithfully kept active by her, and by her children 
and granddaughter, Mary Cox Bryan, who belongs to the Junioi 
Memorial Association and who served as one of the young pages at 
the Confederated Southern Memorial Association Convention, which 

met in Atlanta in 1919. 




MRS. J. D. BEALE 


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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


59 


MRS. J. D. BEALE. 

Mrs. Beale is the youngest daughter of the late Judge John D. Phe¬ 
lan, of the Supreme Court of Alabama. He called the meeting in Monti 
gomery, Alabama, to organize the Ladies’ Memorial Association in 
1866. Her mother, Mrs. Phelan, was a Miss Harris, of Tennessee, who 
gave four sons to the Confederacy. All were officers. Mrs. Phelan 
was one of the organizers of the Memorial Association in Montgomery 
and its first vice-president. Her life was of helpful activity in Church 
and State, full of public spirit and patriotism. The loss of two sons, 
killed in battle, and two made invalids from hardships in war, both 
dying with consumption, left her a broken-hearted woman. Garrett’s 
History of Alabama, says, ‘ ‘ She was one of the foremost women of 
Alabama, and extensively known throughout the State.” Mrs. J. D. 
Beale has inherited her mother’s patriotism and love of country and 
for twenty-five years has been to the front in all works of Church, 
State and club life. She was president of many clubs and organiza¬ 
tions in Alabama. Her first U. D. C. work was to call a meeting on 
July 4th, 1896, at her home in Montgomery to organize a chapter. This 
chapter, the “Cradle of the Confederacy” was large and accomplished 
wonderful work. Mrs. Beale was president for many years. She was 
active in organizing the Alabama Division U. D. C., driving her pet 
horse, known as “The Daughter of the Confederacy,” in Montgomery, 
notifying the ladies to meet at the Council Chamber on April 8th, 1897. 
The Alabama Division has done such splendid work it would fill vol¬ 
umes. Mrs. Beale did much to assist in the erection of the Alabama 
Mountain Creek Home for Veterans. While living in Alabama she 
never missed a General U. D. C. Convention, always bringing before 
that body something of interest. She was made a vice-president in 
1904, and prepared the beautiful U. D. C. ritual which is read at the 
opening of General Conventions and all State Division Conventions. 
She has given liberally in support of U. D. C. works—for charity, 
patriotism and in a social way. 

In May, 1900, Miss Mary Custis Lee was a guest at her home in 
Montgomery. A gorgeous reception was given the daughter of the 
greatest general in history and was attended by men, women and 
children—everybody came. Every corner and nook in the palatial 
home was filled with flowers. General Torrence, G. A. R. Commander, 
and his wife were stopping in Montgomery, enroute for New Orleans. 
They, too, sent a handsome floral offering of red and white and were 
given a warm reception. 

Mrs. Beale.was elected a Vice-President of the General U. D. C. 
in Charleston in 1904 and served on many committees. Preservation 
of the “First White House of the Confederacy” in Montgomery, Ala¬ 
bama, has been the work nearest her heart for twenty-five years. She 
was Regent of the association in Alabama and is now Honorary Life 



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Regent. Through her energy and enthusiasm the valuable relics from 
Beauvoir, Miss., were secured. In 1897 Mrs. Beale visited Mrs. Davis 
and her daughter at Beauvoir. When they were dismantling and 
packing a carload of things were given to be placed in the First White 
House in Montgomery. Mrs. Davis was greatly interested in the pres¬ 
ervation of this home. Bedroom sets, books and cases, pictures, pens with 
which he wrote “Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government ,’* rugs, 
curtains, personal effects, bags, trunks, umbrellas, tables—everything. 

Gov. Joseph Johnson, then in office, gave a room in the Alabama 
State Capitol for these sacred relics until the home could be secured. 
Alabama has after all these years come to realize what a valuable 
possession she has. Last June, 1919, the Alabama Legislature voted 
to preserve the house and the relics and furniture will be placed therein. 
There will be a Robert E. Lee and a Stonewall Jackson room. Tlie 
White House Association is affiliated with the Memorial Association 
and meets with their conventions. Mrs. Chappell Cory is now Regent. 

Mrs. Beale in 1905 came to New York to live. She was elected His¬ 
torian of the chapter and has given talks and original papers at every 
meeting. She assisted in organizing the New York Division and was 
made Historian and is now one of the Honorary Life Presidents. 

As soon as war was declared in 1917 she moved that the chapter 
give an ambulance in memory of President Davis and General Lee and 
Admiral Semmes and was made Chairman of the committee. A second 
ambulance was given in memory of General Wheeler. She was director 
for “World War Work” for the New York Division. 











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MRS. JAMES CARTER COOK. 

As one of the leading Southern writers, Mrs. Mary Louise Cook was 
widely known. 

As an interpreter of the beautiful home life of the'Old South, with 
its chivalry, its idealism and its culture, Mrs. Cook was unexcelled. 
She not only interpreted that beautiful life—she lived it. Her beau¬ 
tiful home, “Belmont,” in the suburbs of Columbus, Georgia, is dis¬ 
tinctly Southern in its architecture, in its picturesque setting in the 
midst of grounds that are broad, spacious and lovely, and in its gra¬ 
cious and genuine hospitality. Her home life was beautiful. As a 
woman of culture and quick sympathies and of wide interests, she 
left an impress on the typical southern city where she lived, loved 
and was loved. 

Mary Louise Redd was a native of Georgia, being a daughter of 
Charles Anderson Redd of Virginia and Elizabeth Gresham Redd, 
originally of Greensboro, Ga. Her entire life was spent in the South. 
She loved it passionately. Its genius was well interpreted in her own 
life of culture and refinement, and its spirit found free, intelligent 
and accurate expression in her works—books which were not only 
works of fiction, but far more than that. 

At an early age she married Mr. James Carter Cook, a wealthy 
Southern planter owning an extensive estate in the northern suburbs 
of Columbus. Mr. Cook was a man of high and honorable character, 
a descendent of two old and illustrious Southern families, the Cooks 
and Carters of Virginia, whose staunch qualities found perfect ex¬ 
pression in his own stainless life. 

In 1869 Mrs. Cook wrote “Ante-Bellum; or Southern Life As It 
Was.” At the time “Mary Lennox” was given as the name of the 
author, and the book was dedicated to “the friends of the South.” 

The ‘gifted writer of this book was herself left an orphan at an 
early age, and one can well imagine that the tender and exalted 
beauty of some of the passages is but an echo of some of her own 
early experiences. 

From no less than Alexander Stephens, whose own high literary 
achievements are known to all, came high praise of “A Woman’s 
Perils.” Mr. Stephens wrote this characteristic letter: 

“Liberty Hall, Crawfordsville, Ga., 
October 16, 1892. 

“My Dear Mrs. Cook: 

“Please allow me to thank you for a copy of “ A Woman’s Perils.’ 
I have just finished its perusal, and be assured I was intensely in¬ 
terested in the thrilling story from the beginning to the end. All the 
characters are original, and some of them exquisitely drawn; that for 
instance of Mrs. Dalton, as well as that of the infamous Lawson, 
while that of Mrs. Gordon is almost without parallel in romance. I 
do most heartily congratulate you on this admirable contribution to 
the literature of the country. . Yours truly, 

“ALEXANDER STEPHENS.” 




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Some one said of Mrs. Cook: “She writes because she cannot 
help it.' ’ Her soul sought expression, and in writing, in painting and 
in her beautiful home and social life, her heart and spirit were re¬ 
vealed. 

The parlors and dining room of “Belmont,” Mrs. Cook’s home, are 
ornamented with her own paintings. 

It can be well understood that a family so distinctively Southern 
as the Cooks, in rearing, sympathies, tastes and associations, and so 
thoroughly identified with their native section by both family and 
historic ties, should have given to the Southern Confederacy the fullest 
measure of devotion. Eventually there came a day when their 
own home city, Columbus, so remote from the early battle fields of 
the war between the States, and seemingly so secure, fell into the hands 
of the Federals through the fortunes of war. in that dark hour, the 
grim manifestations of war penetrated into the very grounds of this 
fine old Southern home, located though it was in the suburbs, for a 
camp had been pitched in the flower yard of the residence. Major 
General J. T. Wilson was in charge of the Federal troops. One of the 
Columbus newspapers told as follows of this incident at “Belmont:” 

“During his stay in the city General Wilson instructed one 
of his officers, Colonel Eggleston, to seize the most elegant car¬ 
riage to be found, and report to his headquarters at the Mott 
mansion. Colonel Eggleston called at the residence of Mr. 
James C. Cook, on Rose Hall, and demanded his carriage, 
stating that he had been ordered to take it, as he was informed 
that it answered the description. The Jadv of the house, we 
are told, although surrounded by a large number of Federal 
troops, refused to deliver the carriage, telling the officer it 
was private property and she had been furnished with a guard 
to protect her rights.” 

This spirited protest did not avail, however—the property was 
seized—and we read further in the newspaper account of the incident: 
“The handsome carriage, drawn by four horses, was taken to head¬ 
quarters, with the United States flag waving above it.” 

Mr. and Mrs. Cook were thoroughly identified with all charitable 
movements in Columbus, their home city. On the first anniversary 
of Mrs. Cook’s death (December 23), her husband gave the Mayor of 
Columbus a check for $500 to be used for the poor of the city, es¬ 
pecially the children, saying that he would like to feel that there were 
no “empty stockings” in town that Christmas. 

“Rose Hill,” an extensive suburb of Columbus, was named by Mrs. 
Cook, + his name being chosen because of the profusion of Cherokee 
roses which formerly grew wild on that hill. 

Mr. and Mrs. Cook had four children—Charles Anderson Redd Cook, 
James Carter Cook, Henry Carleton Cook and Miss Mary Elvira Cook, 
James Carter Cook was a member 9 f the famous Nelson Rangers, one 
of the most noted of the Confederate commands. 






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MRS. HOKE SMITH. 

(BY MISS MILDRED RUTHERFORD.) 

Marion Thomas Cobb was named for her mother, Marion Lumpkin, 
and her father, General Thomas R. R. Cobb. She was born in Athens, 
Georgia, January, 1860. 

How well I remember the joy and happiness she brought into her 
home! “Birdie ,” as Marion was lovingly called, came really as a bird 
to brighten and cheer. She was a beautiful baby, very affectionate, 
very unselfish, very cheery. 

Soon after her birth the war cloud came. Her father, Thomas R. R. 
Cobb, organized a legion and offered it to the neAv government. His 
legion was ordered to Virginia, which became really the seat of war. 
He named his camp for Birdie, his baby girl, and most of his war let¬ 
ters are dated from “Camp Birdie.” 

General Cobb was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg. Although 
he died at the age of thirty-eight, he had already been for years leader 
in church and educational work of Athens, and is classed by many as 
Georgia’s greatest lawyer. 

Little Birdie, too young to realize what his death meant, became the 
sunshine to brighten a bereaved and heart-broken mother. 

Birdie’s early school training came from her mother. She later went 
to Lucy Cobb, from which she was graduated, dividing first honor. 
Birdie was always a favorite at school, and her popularity was still 
great as she grew into womanhood. She had many suitors among her 
university friends, and young men from other states whom she met 
later. None seemed to fill the desire of her heart until she met in 
Atlanta a young lawyer, Hoke Smith, the son of Dr. Smith, a well- 
known educator and scholar from North Carolina. 

Mr. Smith was four years older than Birdie. It was only a short 
time after they met before each knew they were intended for each 
other. She yielded her heart to him in absolute loyalty and devotion. 
He made her a loving husband, thoughtful of her every wish, and noth¬ 
ing was left undone that could bring joy to her heart. Five children 
came to the home, and a more devoted father or mother never lived. 

Mrs. Smith’s home was always open to her friends. She was an 
ideal hostess, and no expense or trouble was too great to take for the 
friends who were her guests. She really kept open house for the 
friends of her husband and children as long as her health permitted. 

Her husband entered the Cabinet of President Cleveland when Mrs. 
Smith was only thirty-three. Her great ability and her charm of man¬ 
ner made an enduring impression on Washington, and her receptions, 
open to all, gathered the rich and poor to receive the same kindly 
greetings. Again, when her husband was Governor, all found welcome 
to the Executive Mansion. 


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She was a woman of intense religious conviction, with faith that 
knew no doubt. 

While a woman of marked intellectual gifts, her greatest quality 
was love. She loved her husband and her children with an absorbing, 
unselfish love expressed every hour in every thought and act of her 
life. She loved her relatives and friends. She loved all she knew, and 
those who needed acts of kindness found her ever ready with them. 

About the time her husband entered the U. S. Senate her health 
failed, and from then on she was much of tne time an invalid, but she 
bore up wdth the same sweet and gentle spirit that made all love her 
for the love she gave. 

She died in Atlanta on June 7th, 1919, surrounded by husband, cliil- 
dred and grandchildren. She left beside her husband, four children— 
Marion Smith, the only living son, Mary Brent Ransom, Lucy Simpson, 
Callie Pratt, and several grandchildren to mourn her loss. Her sisters, 
Sally Cobb Jackson and Callie Cobb Hull, had died before her, but 
many nieces and nephews were left who felt very close to her in bonds 
of fondest love. 

Her girlhood and young ladyhood were spent in the home of her sis¬ 
ter, Mrs. Hull, in Athens. It was at her home the marriage took place. 

Mrs. Smith was a member of the Presbyterian church, closely iden¬ 
tified with Sunday School and church work, but her duties as wife and 
mother prevented her from becoming identified actively with other 
organizations, although her purse was ever open, and her influence 
thrown to aid all good works. 

No one who knew “Birdie Cobb” will ever forget her, or cease to 
love her. 




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MRS. THOMAS JAMES COLLIER 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH 


71 


MRS. THOMAS JAMES COLLIER. 


Southern womanhood shone at its brightest and best in those moth¬ 
ers of tlie present generation who lived to perpetuate the principles of 
honor and chivalry that guided the founders of Southern civilization. 
Among these queenly women a place of high honor belongs Mrs. T. J. 
Collier of Griffin, Ga., who passed from this earth to her heavenly re¬ 
ward April 5, 1919. 

Willie Margaret Newman was born March 23, 1845, in Hancock 
County, Ga. But it was in Monroe county and in Forsyth, the county 
seat, that she passed through the years that led her to young womanhood. 
Her education was completed at Monroe Female College, Forsyth, un¬ 
der the presidency of Prof. R. T. Asburv, a celebrated educator of that 
day. • • 

After her graduation she taught at Jonesboro and also at Forsyth, 
where she was associated with Allen D. Candler, afterwards Gov¬ 
ernor of Georgia. She had already come to be known as a young 
woman who combined with rare beauty and personal charm a brilliant 
and cultivated mind, gifted with her pen, endowed with a high appre¬ 
ciation of the best in literature and life, and eagerly interested in all 
that concerned her fellow creatures. 

In November, 1867, she was married to Dr. Thomas J. Collier, of 
Indian springs, who, after passing through the war, had just finished 
his course in the medical college and was about to enter upon the 
practice of his profession. l)r. Collier had gone through the war as a 
member of the Butts Volunteers, E. D. Dupree, captain, and Larkin D. 
Watson first lieutenant, and was wounded in the fighting in front of 
Richmond. A brother of his, Mr. Bryan A. Collier, who at the time of 
his death w^as living in New York City, was twice wounded at Cold 
Harbor, and another brother, now Judge N. C. Collier of St. Louis, was 
a member of the same company. 

Dr. Collier, who died in December, 1910, was known throughout his 
life not only for professional ability and standing, but for a singularly 
exalted Christian character. 

After practicing his profession for ten years in Monroe County, Dr. 
Collier removed in 1880 to Griffin. Here Mrs. Collier formed the ties 
and engaged in the varied lines of service which are of chief interest 
from the standpoint of the present work. She was for years a mem 
ber of the U. D. C., holding positions of responsibility and honor and 
cherishing loyally and lovingly the traditions which the Daughters of 
the Confederacy are striving to perpetuate. She loved everything as¬ 
sociated with the Old South, and held tenaciously, though without bit¬ 
terness or rancor, to the sacred principles of the Confederacy. 

Perhaps the work with which her life was intertwined most closely 
and nrost enduringly was that of the “Dorcas Society,” a benevolent 
organization of ladies of the First Baptist Church of Griffin, in which 


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church her husband was a deacon. She was for many years president 
of this society. Much charitable work was done by this organization, 
and into this work she entered with the unselfish interest of one who 
delights in relieving distress, wherever found. There was scarcely a 
time during the years of her residence in Griffin in which her home 
was not the constant resort of some lonely old woman, stricken with 
poverty and perhaps burdened with years, who never failed to find here 
a sympathetic ear into which to pour her story of distress, whatever it 
might be. 

Once she made a journey to the State Hospital for the Insane at 
Milledgeville to accompany a poor unfortunate who had been com¬ 
mitted to that institution and who would go willingly in no other 
company than hers. 

Another organization with different aims into which she threw a 
large part of her life and thought was the “Mystic Circle/’ a literary 
organization made up of a limited number of Griffin ladies of kindred 
tastes. For many years the ties of friendship cemented in this “Cir¬ 
cle ’ ’ constituted a valued and cherished part of her life. 

In the simple and yet momentous interests which these brief facts 
suggest she spent the years of her life in Griffin, known and loved as 
the cultured, gracious friend, the polished gentlewoman, the Christian 
of unassuming piety, the wife and the mother whose finer qualities were 
best known and most tenderly cherished by husband and children. From 
time to time she brightened with the products of her pen some current 
periodical, perhaps in advocacy of some cause very near to her heart. 
Forty years after her graduation she responded to the call of her Alma 
Mater and addressed a gathering of the Alumnae in Forsyth at com¬ 
mencement. 

Besides a little daughter Edith, who died in early childhood, one 
son, T. J. Collier, Jr., died in the summer of 1891 in the nineteenth 
year or his age. Her surviving children are Bryan Wells Collier, Bap¬ 
tist minister, who married Miss Margaret Marion Wootten; Mrs. Mack 
Crawford, of Cornelia, Ga., and Mrs. Julian A. Space, of Darien, Ga., at 
whose home she awaited the last summons. 






MRS. ANDREW BAXTER 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


75 


MRS. ANDREW BAXTER, 

One of the queenly daughters of the old regime in the South was 
Mrs. Andrew Baxter, the mother of Miss Alice Baxter, who has 
played so large and distinguished a part in the work of the Daughters 
of the Confederacy. 

Miss Martha Williams was born December 5, 1822. She had one 
brother, Dr. William Williams, who was one of the most distinguished 
and scholarly of the Baptist ministers of the South, a professor for 
3 T ears in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Miss Williams 
was married January 28, 1846, to Mr. Andrew Baxter, with whom she 
spent more than fifty years of happy wedded life. 

Her husband was during the war a member of Company F, Four¬ 
teenth Texas Cavalry. At the close of the war he was acting as super¬ 
intendent of transportation works at Taylor, Texas, having been 
assigned to this position because ill health unfitted him for further 
active service. He had five brothers in the army, all of whom were 
gallant soldiers, like himself. 

During the absence of her husband from home Mrs. Baxter managed 
the plantation, living alone with her two little daughters, her son 
being away from home m a boarding school. At one time learning 
that her husband was ill, she started in a carriage, with a driver, on 
a journey of two hundred miles to see him. She was turned back 
from this journey only by the information that the roads were impass¬ 
able, and also that her husband had been sent home and was probably 
already on the way. 

Mrs. Baxter lived until May, 1902, this being in her eightieth year 
when she was called home. After her death, one who had long known 
her intimately said: “She was the light of her home and when she 
disappeared from view left behind a radiance like that of the 'setting 
sun.” But if she had accomplished nothing more in her lifetime than 
giving to the world the gifted and distinguished daughter alluded to, 
her life would have been a fruitful one. 





MISS. ALICE BAXTER 


FIRST VICE PRESIDENT GENERAL, U. D. C. 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MISS ALICE BAXTER. 

This truly representative and gifted Southern woman is one of 
Georgia’s noblest daughters, of whom Leslie’s Weekly, in its issue 
of September 3, 1908, said: “Miss Baxter, whose lineage is of the 
best, is a lady of high character and accomplishments, who is highly 
respected in her own and other Southern States. ’ ’ 

Miss Alice Baxter is a daughter of Andrew Baxter, who was a 

gallant soldier in the Fourteenth Texas Cavalry, and of Mrs. Martha 

Williams Baxter, of Atlanta, Georgia. She is a graduate of Wesleyan 
College, Macon, Georgia. 

Miss Baxter is a member of the Atlanta Chapter U. D. C. From 
1901 to 1904 she was President of the Chapter. From 1899 to 1901 
she had been Corresponding Secretary of the Georgia Division. In 

October, 1903, she was elected First Vice-President of the Georgia 
Division and was re-elected in 1905, serving until 1907. 

In 1907 she w T as elected President of the Georgia Division, and 
was re-elected in 1909, thus filling this position of honor and respon 
sibility four consecutive years. Of her work in this office a high 
official in the U. D. C. said: “It is rare that a woman brings to 
the duties of a high executive office so clear a consciousness and 

such absolute devotion to the best that is in the work as Miss Baxter. 
The work has developed and grown under her administration and 
the part that will last, the educational part, -has received an impetus 
and an encouragement that can not fail to be productive of results 
that will continue as long as the Division lasts.” 

During her administration of this office, the Wirtz monument was 
erected at Andersonville. Miss Baxter also led the women of Georgia 
in work in the interest of the Rabun Gap Industrial School. Contem¬ 
porary reports of the annual meetings over which Miss Baxter pre¬ 
sided, contain high tributes to her. One refers to the “high type of 
executive ability ’ ’ which she displayed, and another spoke of her as 
presiding with ‘ ‘ the high bred grace of a Georgia gentlewoman. ’ ’ 

She was Registrar of the Children of the Confederacy from 1909 
to 1917, and from 1915 to 1917 she was chairman of the Bartow 
Memorial Committee at Rabun Gap. During the World War she was 
Director General of War Relief, serving from May, 1917, to 
October, 1919. 

The last and perhaps the crowning honor of Miss Baxter’s career 
as a Daughter of the Confederacy came in November, 1919, when, in 
the meeting at Tampa, Florida, she was elected First Vice President 
General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. On this occasion 
tributes were paid to her by prominent and loyal women of the 
organization, which were of such a character as to constitute indeed 
a crown of honor for this noble daughter of the South. 




MRS. MARY E. BRYAN 






REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. MARY E. BRYAN. 

Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, President of the Robert E. Lee Chapter 
U. D. (’. of Houston, Texas, was born at LaGrange, Tennessee. Her 
husband, Mr. J. A. Bryan, was a Confederate soldier, a member of the 
Washington Artillery of New Orleans. 

One of her four beloved sons was a soldier in the Spanish-American 
War. 

Mrs. Bryan is one of the most prominent U. D. C. workers in 
Texas. In 1897 she assisted in organizing the Robert E. Lee Chapter, 
and has served as President for fourteen years, through all the work 
of the Chapter and for its purpose, in organization, as memorial, his¬ 
torical, benevolent, educational and social—to the memory of those 
who served and those who fell in the service of the Confederate 
States; to protect, preserve and mark places made historical by Con¬ 
federate valor; to collect and preserve the material for a truthful 
history of the War Between the States. To record the part taken by 
Southern women, in patient endurance of hardships, and patriotic 
devotion during the struggle, as in united effort after the war, and 
during the reconstruction of the South. To fulfill the sacred duty 
of benevolence toward the survivors, and those dependent upon them. 
To assist descendants of worthy Confederates in securing proper educa¬ 
tion, and to cherish the ties of friendship among the members of 
the organization. In all this Mrs. Bryan has been true to her trust 
and faithful to every obligation. She assisted in raising a fund of 
$8,000 for a monument, “Spirit of the Confederacy ” and specially 
designed for the Robert E. Lee Chapter, which was placed in Sam 
Houston Park. She a’so assisted in raising the fund to erect the Con¬ 
federate Woman’s Home in Austin, Texas, and to maintain the Home, 
and voted to give to the State the Home as a Memorial to the women 
of the Confederacy. 

She was the leading spirit in bringing the General Convention to 
Houston in October, 1909. She has served on various State committees, 
and had the honor of being elected Second Vice President General in 
the General Association, from October, 1909, until November, 1912. 

She served as assistant to the State Director of Work, representing 
Houston in getting contributions for the U. D. C. beds in the American 
Hospital in Neuillv, France, during the World War, which led in 
number all other States. The President General appointed her to 
serve on the Peace Committee for 1920. She was also reappointed 
Director in Texas Division as book collector to send to Bodleian Li¬ 
brary at Oxford, Eng'and. 










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MRS. SAMUEL DAVIESS BLACKBURN. 

The Marshall name has been honored since Colonial days. This 
branch claims its descent from the great Earl of Pembroke, and holds 
to the given names of Gilbert or “Strong Bow,” and William, first 
Earl Marshall. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Henry Marshall Blackburn was the daughter of 
Gen. William Marshall and Elizabeth Henry Williams, his wife. She 
was the wife of Gen. Samuel Daviess Blackburn, a scientist, and law¬ 
yer by profession. She was one of the most distinguished beauties 
of her day. She possessed a low musical voice and “in brilliancy of 
conversation and graciousness of manners, she was excelled by none.” 
In all relationships, as wife, mother, friend and Christian, love domi¬ 
nated. Her qualities of mind and heart fitted her to adorn any so¬ 
ciety; sweetness and gentleness were prominent traits in her character, 
naturally endearing her to her friends and acquaintances. Nor did she 
lack firmness, also one of the most important elements in one 7 s per¬ 
sonality. Superior in intellectual attainments, and possessing the sweet 
amenities of the heart, she was a typical representative of the noble 
women of the old South. 

In 1861 General and Mrs. Blackburn vacated their spacious resi¬ 
dence for the headquarters of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson. 

While the Confederate army occupied Bowling Green, Drs. Luns¬ 
ford and David Yanlde assigned to Mrs. Blackburn and Mrs. Albert 
Covington, wards in the hospital, called by their names. These ladies 
supplied necessities and personally ministered to the sick and dying. 
At the request of General Hardee, Mesdames Blackburn, Covington 
and Pillsbury organized auxiliary aids in the adjoining counties, which 
sent carloads of ready-made garments, and provender, the fat of “the 
land to the boys.” 

Before retreating with Confederate army (as honorary aide de camp 
to Gen. Wm. Hardee) General Blackburn re-established his wife, chil¬ 
dren and servants at home. The following morning the family and 
guests were startled to find minie balls falling about the house. The 
incoming army was bombarding the recent headquarters of the Con¬ 
federate general. That chivalrous Englishman, St. Leger Grenfel, 
Reid Sanders and Colonel Smith urged Mrs. Blackburn to allow them 
to escort her and children to her husband. She plead with them to 
hasten away, and wise’v remained within her home with children and 
faithful servants. 


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MRS. WILLIAM FORT WILLIAMS. 

That Mrs. William Fort Williams holds a place of distinction 
among the honored Daughters of the Confederacy is attested by this 
personal expression from Judge Thomas H. Hines, one of Morgan’s 
men and now judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky: “Of my 
own knowledge you are a Daughter of the Confederacy, for your 
father and mother spent themselves in supplying the needs of the hos¬ 
pital in Bowling Green, and your father was an honored member of the 
secession convention at Rusellville. ’ ’ Mrs. Williams treasures with 
just and becoming pride, not only this letter, but another to the same 
effect from Judge W. L. Dulaney, one of the most beloved men in the 
State of Kentucky, and also one of Morgan’s men. 

Mrs. Williams was born in the stately home in Bowling Green, Ky., 
which is pictured in this volume. Her maiden name was Juliet Mar¬ 
shall Blackburn, and she was a daughter of General and Mrs. Samuel 
Daviess Blackburn. A sketch of her cultured and beautiful mother ap¬ 
pears in this work. Her father was a scientist and lawyer by profes¬ 
sion, a man famed for his ready wit and wide reading, as well as for 
his high standing in his profession. 

Mrs. Williams holds vividly in memory the scenes and incidents 
connected with the time when the family moved out of their beautiful 
home, in order that the house might be used as headquarters for Gen¬ 
eral Albert Sidney Johnson. She remembers how at the bombardment 
and subsequent evacuation of Bowling Green, their home, having been 
pointed out as the headquarters of the Confederate Army, bore the 
brunt of the firing. In 1872, the last unexploded shell was removed 
from the garden of the home, where it was found under a Norway 
spruce. 

After her marriage to Hon. William Fort Williams, she removed to 
Atlanta, Ga., where she now makes her home. Her husband is one 
of the distinguished and highly esteemed citizens of Georgia, a man 
who represents the finest type of Southern gentleman. Mrs. Williams, 
while now a resident of Georgia and devoted to the State of her 
adoption, cherishes happy and loving memories of her old Kentucky 
home. She regrets that her native State was divided in sentiment 
during the war, but she herself was from first to last an ardent Con¬ 
federate and has never faltered in her devotion to the cause. 

She was for years Second Vice-President of the Confederated Memo¬ 
rial Association of Atlanta, and she is now First Vice-President. She 
has twice represented the Association in the Convention of the Confed¬ 
erated Memorial Association. 

She is a D. A. R., a member of the Atlanta chapter, and is also a 
Colonial Dame, but she is proudest of all of being a Daughter of the 
Confederacy. 




MISS MARY B. POPPENHEIM 



representative women of the south. 


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MISS MARY B. POPPENHEIM. 

Miss Mary B. Poppenheim, ex-President General of the United 
Daughters of the Confederacy, was born in Charleston, S. C., of native 
born South Carolina ancestry for six generations on both sides, her 
forbears having migrated to South Carolina fom Bavaria and Ireland 
prior to the American Revolution. She comes from a long line of rice 
and cotton planters in South Carolina. 

She was graduated from Yassar College in 1888, holding the position 
of Vice President of the entire student body, and is one of four sisters 
all of whom were graduated from Yassar with the A. B. degree. 

Her Confederate record comes through her father, C. P. Poppenheim, 
Sergeant Company A, Hampton Legion, Hood’s Brigade, Longstreet’s 
Corps, who was seriously wounded at the battle of Sharpsburg, carry¬ 
ing forward the colors of the Legion. He enlisted with the first volun¬ 
teers from Charleston, January, 1861, and took part in the reduction of 
Fort Sumter; with an open wound after the battle of Sharpsburg he 
served with the Legion around Richmond and Petersburg, Ya., and out 
in the Tennessee Campaign during 1863. Miss Poppenheim’s maternal 
uncle, Lieutenant J. R. Bouknight, was mortally wounded at Malvern 
Hill, Va., while leading his Company U M” Seventh Regiment South 
Carolina Volunteers. 

She was elected President General of the United Daughters of the 
Confederacy at Chattanooga, in November, 1917, and under her direc¬ 
tion has been inaugurated the wmnderful war relief work which now 
engages the attention of the U. D. C., a part of which shows beds en¬ 
dowed by this organization at the American Military Hospital No. 1, 
at Nueilly, for the period of the war. 

Miss Poppenheim was trained for U. D. C. service in her State, 
having served as President of the South Carolina Division for two 
years (the limit of term); she also organized the historical work in the 
South Carolina Division, and served for eight years as State Historian; 
she also organized the Educational Committee U. D. C. in her State 
Division and served as its Chairman for five years. She was the Shiloh 
Director for South Carolina for ten years and raised her State’s con¬ 
tribution to the position of third in collections from all States. 

She has served on the History Committee U. D. C., and the Consti¬ 
tutional Committee U. D. C., but her work is best known as Chairman 
of the Committee on Education, as she organized this great work in 
1908 and served as its Chairman for nine years, giving up its duties 
only to assume those of the office of President General. In her last 
report at Chattanooga she reported 705 scholarships valued at $62,000.00, 
managed and assigned by the U. D. C. for that year. 

Miss Poppenheim is also an active club woman as well as a U. D. C., 
being a charter member of many civic and philanthropic clubs in 
Charleston. She is a member of the D. A. R., Y. W. C. A., College 
Club, South Carolina Historical Society and many others. 




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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OE THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. AGNES WALKER HALLIBURTON 

History tells us the province of Louisiana, of which our Arkansas 
was a part, belonged to France in 1761 and during the Seven Years 
War, England against France and Spain, the king of France finding 
himself hard pressed, made a secret treaty with Spain and conveyed 
the province of Louisiana to that King. 

The forces in this far-away country of Louisiana, were reduced to 
four companies, one of these commanded by Major Vaugine, who 
was great grandfather of her whose memorial we write today. A 
portrait of another of her distinguished ancestors, Don Joseph de’Val- 
liere, painted in France in 1760, hangs in our State Capitol, loaned 
by her to the History Commission and said to be the oldest painting 
on tne west side of the Mississippi river. 

From these distinguished ancestors, came her heritage of wonderful 
executive ability, keen, logical mind and the splendid qualities that 
made for leadership. 

Agnes Walker Halliburton was born at “Elmwood,” her father’s 
plantation near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, July, 1855. She was one of eleven 
children of Robert Woods Walker and Eulalie Vaugine Taylor. She was 
married in 1880 to Mr. Orlando Halliburton, a member of one of the 
pioneer families of the State and to them seven children were born, 
three sons and four daughters. 

Agnes Walker Halliburton, a life member of the Catholic Church, 
was interested in all charitable works and everything that raised the 
standard of society. Her love for the South and the “Lost Cause” 
filled her heart. She was a charter member of Memorial Chapter, 
serving two terms as President; was elected State President in 1907, 
again serving two terms and at the General Convention in Little Rock 
in 1910, as a compliment to her ability and efficiency, she was retained 
in office for that year. 

She was made Registrar General in 1912 at the General Convention 
in Washington, D. C., serving five years and interesting herself in all 
that pertained to the work, as correcting records of Chapters of all the 
States and also correcting histories used in the schools of both North 
and South. Her last interest was that of the great Jefferson Highway. 

Then suddenly on the morning of September 13th, 1918, came the 
word “Agnes Walker Halliburton is no more.” God in His wisdom 
had called her to Him. 









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EEPEESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


89 


MRS. C. FELIX HARVEY. 

Mrs. Felix Harvey of Kinston, N. C., formerly Miss Lary Lewis 
Heartt of Ealeigh, N. C., was unanimously elected President of the 
North Carolina Division U. D. C. May 1st, 1919. 

The ovation given her election was a splendid tribute to her merit 
as a woman and to her zeal as a worker. The Daughters of the Con¬ 
federacy knew they had found a type of womanhood whose gentleness., 
ready sympathy, ability and charming personality expressed the ideal 
Southern lady. 

Mrs. Harvey was born and reared in Ealeigh, N. C., and is a grad¬ 
uate of Peace Institute. She was the daughter of the late Mr. Leo 
D. Heartt of Ealeigh, and the granddaughter of the late Mr. Dennis 
Heartt, founder, and for many years editor, of the Hillsboro Eecorder, 

Mrs. Harvey’s mother was Ann Maria Dewey, of New Bern, N. C.; 
the daughter of Captain Oliver T. and Matilda Sparrow Dewey. She 
was reared in a home noted for its intelligence and luxury, on a 
large plantation teeming with busy and happy slaves. 

Her father was a graduate of Yale and devoted his life to literary 
pursuits. Although Captain Dewey was a Connecticut man by birth, 
he was an ardent advocate of secession and held the position of Post 
Quartermaster at Kinston during the war. His eldest son left Yale 
to volunteer as a private in the Confederate Army, rising to the rank 
of Captain of Company H, 1st North Carolina Cavalry. 

Mrs. Leo D. Heartt loved the Southland, with an absorbing passion, 
became President of the Southern Memorial Association, later a State 
officer in the U. D. C. Thus it was the daughter had instilled into 
her the truest traits of the Southern Confederacy and a desire to fol¬ 
low in tne footsteps of her patriotic mother, one of the most beloved 
women of the North Carolina U. D. C. 

YVlien we trace Mrs. Harvey’s activities in the U. D. C. work we 
find a proud record of usefulness and loyalty. While local President of 
the A. M. Waddell Chapter the work received an impetus; as District di¬ 
rector of a dozen or more chapters she was an inspiration; for three 
years she held the State office of Eegistrar with efficiency. Thus she 
was well fitted for the honorable post she is so ably filling. To be 
President of over 5,000 members and 102 chapters requires capable lead¬ 
ership. Under Mrs. Harvey’s administration North Carolina won many 
coveted honors at the General U. D. C. convention in Tampa, 1 lorida. 
Mrs. Harvey has offered generous prizes for increased membership, 
and the Woman’s Confederate Home has received of her bounty and her 
deep abiding interest. 

Mrs. Harvey’s energies have expressed themselves in other lines 
also. She was Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Y\ Oman’s 
Division of the State Council of Defense, and was also identified with 
Liberty Bond and other patriotic campaigns. She is a member of the 



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Colonial Dames and Daughters of the American Revolution, a leader in 
church and social life. 

She was married to Mr. C. Felix Harvey of Kinston, N. C., twenty- 
five years ago. Mr. Harvey conies of a long line of ancestors who 
have influenced the history of their State and have been successful 
financiers. All these traits are combined in Mr. Harvey, for he is to¬ 
day one of the leading men in North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey 
are blessed with an interesting family, Lieut. Felix Harvey, Jr., 
(World War), Mr. Leo Heartt Harvey, now at the University of North 
Carolina, and a young daughter, Mary Lewis. 

They are possessed of a beautiful estate, in fact one of the most 
historic homes in Eastern Carolina, “Vernon Hall,” associated with 
the names of Caswell, Herritage, Cobb and Washington. Mrs. Harvey’s 
artistic temperament lias found expression in her lovely home, beauti¬ 
ful grounds and rare flowers. As mistress and hostess she radiates 
sunshine and welcome in her hospitable and spacious home, and you 
feel that womanhood has been enriched by the gifts of her mind and 
tlie graciousness of her manner. 






MRS. EMMET LEE MERRY 








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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


MRS. EMMET LEE MERRY. 

When Mrs. Emmet Lee Merry was selected at the C. S. M. A. meet¬ 
ing at Houston, Texas, as National Organizer for the Confederated 
Southern Memorial Association, a splendid Southern woman, represent¬ 
ing the finest traditions of the Southland, was dedicated to a noble 
work of far-reaching importance. 

A daughter of old Virginia, she has carried into the stirring and 
expanding life of the great West, all of that devotion to Southern ideals 
which are hers by birth and training, and in her present work she is 
communicating those ideals to widely extended circles of the young 
womanhood of the South. 

Anna Gertrude Wall was born on the old home estate, Walton, on 
the edge of Winchester, Frederick County, Va., in the beautiful Shenan¬ 
doah Valley. She was the daughther of Dr. T. W. Wall, and Emily 
Black Pancoast Wall. Dr. Wall, her father, was a surgeon in the 
Confederate army, with the rank of Major, and was attached to the 
staff of General Stonewall Jackson. He had charge of the men at 
Camp Chase, Ohio, prison, where he was a prisoner. 

Her mother, a loyal, gentle Southern woman, climbed out of the 
upper front porch roof of the old Colonial home, there to conceal some 
of the more delicate instruments of her surgeon husband at a time of 
special danger during the war. 

The old Virginia estate which was her birthplace was a grant from 
King George III of England to Lord Fairfax, by whom it was con¬ 
veyed to her great grandfather, who was a Major in the War of the 
Revolution. Her grandfather, John F. Wall, represented his section in 
the House of Delegates at Richmond for many years. 

Miss Wall was educated at Fairfax Hall, Va. The family moved 
from Virginia to Missouri and there she was married to Emmet Lee 
Merry of Marshall, Mo. Her husband is a Son of the Confederacy and 
a Son of the American Revolution and a thoroughbred Southern gentle¬ 
man. Their home is now at Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Mr. Merry has 
extensive business interests. 

Mrs. Merry is eligible for membership in the “Society of F. F. 
V.’s” and in the Colonial Dames, tracing her descent from one of the 
Barons who wrested Magna C’harta from King John in A. D. 1215. She 
is a D. A. R. and a loyal worker in the U. D. C. She is also prominent 
in club work and a favorite and leader in all social circles in her city. 

Mrs. Merry brings to her task a heart full of sympathy and love 
for the Southern cause which cannot be better expressed than in her 
own words: “I have visions of seeing every grave of every Southern 
veteran marked in memory of his brave deeds and heroism. 





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MRS. Z. I. FITZPATRICK. 

Among the queenly daughters whom the State of Georgia has given 
to the world, a place of distinction belongs rightfully to the gifted, pub¬ 
lic-spirited and graciously attractive woman who forms the subject of 
this sketch. Mrs. Z. I. Fitzpatrick,, of Madison, was before her mar¬ 
riage Miss Ida Lee Hester. She was born in Brooks County, Ga., and 
descended from a long line of American-born ancestors. Her mother 
was a member of the Yates family, which came to this country from 
England in 1732. Her father’s ancestors were Scoteh-Irish. 

The Confederate war record of the family to which she belonged 
was of the very best. Her father served in the War between the States, 
as did six uncles. Her grandfather was exempted from active military 
duty on account of valuable service rendered in other necessary ways. 
He was a large planter, owner of many slaves and owner also of a 
large mill, from which he contributed large quantities of food to the 
soldiers. 

In 1884 Miss Hester was married to Prof. Z. I. Fitzpatrick. He is a 
member of one of the oldest families in Georgia and is himself one of 
the State’s most distinguished educators. 

Mrs. Fitzpatrick has always lived in Georgia. She knows her na¬ 
tive State in all phases of its life, social, literary, educational, and is 
deeply interested in all the State’s varied activities. Her home for 
twelve years was in Thomasville, a beautiful town in South Georgia, 
situated right in the center of that portion of the State which has, by 
the art of the landscape gardener, been made one of the fairest spots 
on earth. It was in Thomasville that she began the work with which 

her name has been so honorably associated, that with the U. D. C. and 

with the Federation of Woman’s Clubs. 

Her connection with the work of the U. D. C. has been marked by 
the bestowal of high honors, which her associates have delighted to 
pay her. She was for several years Historian of the John B. Gordon 
Chatper of the U. D. C. and was also Organizer and Director of the John 
Triplett Chapter of the Children of the Confederacy. In both of these 

positions she manifested those literary, executive and social gifts 

which have characterized her entire public and private career. In the 
days following the Great War, when the thoughts of the wisest and 
best among us have been so largely turned to the problems of re¬ 
construction, she has been State Chairman of the Americanization Com¬ 
mittee of the U. D. C. 

For a number Oi. years Mrs. Fitzpatrick has been deeply interested 
in the work which the progressive and cultured women of the State and 
of the South have been doing through the medium of Woman’s Clubs. 
Especially has the educational feature of this work made a strong ap¬ 
peal to her. In recognition of her decided gifts as a leader, she was 
appointed State Vice-President at Large of the Georgia Federation of 



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Woman’s Clubs. Her popularity and usefulness in this position was 
so marked that she was later chosen with marked unanimity of senti¬ 
ment to the position of State President. She filled this place of honor 
and responsibility for four years. During this period she came to hold 
a position of pronounced personal ascendancy throughout the State, due 
altogether to widespread recognition of her eminent fitness. Her fine 
mental qualities, her winning personality, her graciousness of bearing 
and her tact and address in meeting difficult situations gave her a 
high and lasting position in the esteem and admiration of her State. 

Her_retirement friom the office of President did not mean the cessa¬ 
tion of her useful activities. She is now Director for Life of the State 
Federation of Woman’s Clubs and Director from Georgia of the Gen¬ 
eral Federation. She has also been for six years one of the five women 
in the United States serving on the Membership Committee of the Gen¬ 
eral Federation. 

Special mention must be made of the service which Mrs. Fitzpatrick 
has rendered in the great and trying times of the World War. She was 
appointed by the National Federation as one of the ten women in the 
United States who made up the War Victory Commission and served 
as State Chairman National Woman’s Liberty Loan Committee of the 
Treasury Department. Under her direction the women of Georgia sold 
fifty and one-half million dollars worth of bonds. Her service in this 
capacity contributed materially to the success of the great drives. She 
is at present State Chairman of Thrift for the women. 

Mrs. Fitzpatrick delights in giving her aid and influence to the 
great movements whose aim it is to raise the standards of society in 
these crucial reconstruction days through which we are passing, and in 
many ways her hand lias been potent for good. Her unaffected cor¬ 
diality, beautifully combined with grace and dignity of bearing, make 
her a favorite in all circles into which she is thrown. Among her warm 
personal friends she numbers scores of the South’s most representative 
leaders and she has the devoted personal following of a host of others. 
































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MRS. JAMES ROGER. 

Kentucky lias given to the South many strong, useful women, none 
of whom have done more to advance the interest of home, city, State 
and nation than Mrs. James Roger of Paducah. 

She was born in Hickman, Kentucky, daughter of Fritz and Hen¬ 
rietta Hellner. Her father, a civil engineer, was born and educated in 
Denmark. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hellner were music and art critics, and 
the home environment was artistic and literary. 

Dorothy Hellner was educated by private tutors and later attended 
St. Cecelia Academy, Nashville, Tennessee. In 1881 she married James 
Roger, of Tennessee, who served throughout the War Between the 
States in Company A, Sixteenth Tennessee Infantry, Wright’s Brigade, 
Cheatham’s Division, Hardee’s Corps, Army of Tennessee. Private 
Roger was a kinsman, of General Cheatham and had all the valor and 
courage of the blood. He was one of the youngest members of the 
(1 Frank Cheatham Bivouac,” of Nashville, the first organization of 
Confederate veterans. 

Moving from Tennessee to Paducah, Mrs. Roger assisted in the 
organization of the Paducah Chapter U. D. C. of which she is a 
charter member. She was treasurer for several years and in 1905 was 
elected president, serving two terms. During this time the chief work 
of the Chapter was the Confederate Monument, unveiled the year after 
her term of office expired. She was again elected in 1915 and yet 
again in 1916. She also served as Vice President of the Kentucky 
Division U. D. C. 

Colonel Roger is on the staff of General K. M. Van Zant, Com¬ 
mander in Chief United Confederate Veterans and he and Mrs. Roger 
attend the general reunions and are devoted to the cause. 

Mrs. Roger is deeply interested in the Kentucky Confederate 
Veterans’ Home, of which her husband is a trustee. During the World 
War she gave patriotic assistance in Red Cross, Council of National 
Defense and Liberty Loan Work. She is a member of the Woman’s 
Club of Paducah, President of the Woman’s Christian Temperance 
Union of McCracken County, Kentucky, and took an active part in 
the Jubilee Drive of this organization. 

Colonel and Mrs. Roger are members of the Presbyterian Church. 
Their daughter, Henrietta E., married Dr. Vernon Blythe and has one 
son, William Vernon. Their only son, David Davis Roger, married 
Miss Ethel Brooks, and has three children, James Roger II, Mary 
Ring, Ethel. The old Southern traditions are kept alive in the Roger 
home in Paducah and the spacious rooms are the scene of much 
hospitality. 





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101 


MRS. CHARLES L. TRABERT. 

Harriett Abney Wells Trabert of Berkeley, California, ex-Registrar 
General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, has been for many 
years a member of the organization. 

Her father, the late Osborne Wells, of Newberry, South Carolina, and 
his five brothers were in the active service in the Confederate army. Her 
mother, who is the daughter of Harriett Abney and Jacob K. Schumpert, 
also of Newberry, South Carolina, had two brothers in the active service 
of the Confederate army. 

Equipping Mrs. Trabert for her field of patriotic service in connection 
with the organization, is the fact that she served as Division Registrar 
for California for three years and also served as President of Joseph 
LeConte Chapter in Berkeley for two years, that being as long as the 
Constitution allowed her to serve. She served on Committee of Arrange¬ 
ments when the convention met in San Francisco in 1915 and, hence, has 
a wide acquaintance among Daughters of the Confederacy throughout 
the country. 

Mrs. Trabert’s family are old settlers in South Carolina. She had 
three great grandfathers and one great great grandfather in the Revo¬ 
lution and her paternal grandfather, James Wells, in the War of 1812. 

Mrs. Trabert was married twenty-five years ago last June to Charles 
L. Trabert, then of Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. Trabert is a lawyer and lum¬ 
berman. They moved to California seven years ago. They have one 
daughter, whose husband served as instructor in aviation during the 
Great War. 

Mrs. Trabert served as Registrar General U. D. C.—1918-1919. 










MRS. CHARLES R. HYDE. 










REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


103 


MRS. CHARLES R, HYDE. 


Mrs. Charles R. Hyde, ex-Historian General, United Daughters of the 
Confederacy, was Anne Rhea, the third daughter of Rev. Jonathan 
Waverly Bachman, D. D., of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and his wife, 
Evalina Dulaney, and on both paternal and maternal side is a descend¬ 
ant of old colonial families of America. Jonathan Waverly Bachman 
was a student at Union Theological Seminary, New York, when the 
War between the States began. He volunteered for the Confederate 
service by telegraph, and hastened south. He served under General 
Lee, in the mountains of West Virginia, and later was with General 
Jackson, enduring all the horrors of the Romney campaign, in mid¬ 
winter. Afterward, he was made Captain of Company G, 60th Ten¬ 
nessee, and as Senior Captain commanded the regiment during the siege 
of Vicksburg. When called into council by General Pemberton, lie 
voted for the army to cut its way through, rather than to surrender. 
After the surrender at Vicksburg, while a prisoner on parole, he was 
married to Evalina Dulaney at her father’s home, Medical Grove, near 
Bristol, Tenn., October 20, 1863. He later became chaplain of his 
regiment and served until the close of the war. 

Dr. Bachman has been for forty-six years pastor of the First Pres¬ 
byterian church, Chattanooga, Tenn., and is Chaplain General, U. C. V. 

Anne Rhea Bachman was graduated from Sayre College, Lexington, 
Ky., with honors, and soon after her graduation was married to Rev. 
Charles R. Hyde, a well-known Presbyterian minister. They have one 
son, Lieutenant John Bachman Hyde, and a nephew whom they reared 
from childhood, Lieutenant William Dulaney Anderson, both of whom 
saw active service in France throughout the world war. 

Mrs. Hyde has been successively State Secretary, State Historian 
and State Chaplain of the D. A. R. of Tennessee. She was President 
of the Chattanooga Writers’ Club. 

Mrs. Hyde was elected Historian General of the U. D. C. at the 
Chattanooga convention in 1917, and was re-elected at Louisville, Ky., 
1919. She is well known as a writer and lecturer on historical sub¬ 
jects, particularly those relating to the old south, whose history she 
cherishes, and has constantly striven to preserve. She is a strenuous 
advocate of a history that is true and just. Mrs. Hyde is the author of 
a number of pamphlets—among others a history of the general organ¬ 
ization of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. 

During the World War, Mrs. Hyde was Vice-President of the Chatta¬ 
nooga Unit, Woman’s Committee, Council of Defense and chairman 
of the Memorial Committee of the National League for Woman’s Serv¬ 
ice, which committee throughout the war attended the funeral of every 
soldier who died at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 




MRS. JAMES HARVEY CRENSHAW 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


105 


MRS. JAMES HARVEY CRENSHAW. 

Among the many notable women of Alabama who have worked 
untiringly to brighten the remaining days of the soldiers in gray, 
and to promote and further the causes for which the great organiza¬ 
tion of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded, none 
is better known or more beloved than Mollie Files Crenshaw. Born in 
Mobile, March 26tn, 1856, the daughter of David J. Files, and his 
wife, Mary Childers, she rendered to the Confederacy the only service 
a small girl could give; “making lint ,” ravelling threads from old 
linen which was sterilized for use in hospitals. 

Her father, while running the blockade to Cuba for the Confederacy 
was captured and imprisoned at Key West for six months. He es¬ 
caped from prison and after many thrilling experiences reached New 
Orleans, then in the hands of the enemy. Disguised as a laborer, he 
worked until he made the amount necessary to pay some one to get 
him across the Federal lines into Alabama. Hurrying home to Mobile 
he was soon with his regiment, the Coast Defense, which guarded 
the entrance to Mobile Bay, and as Captain under Colonel Quartlebaum 
remained at his post of duty until the war closed. Her paternal grand¬ 
father, Col. David Files, served with Jackson in the battle of New 
Orleans, and her maternal great-grandfather, Col. James Lucas, was 
on Washington’s staff, and died as a result of frozen feet at the battle 
of Valley Forge. 

Mrs. Crenshaw has served as President of the Sophie Bibb Chapter, 
U. D. C., the largest and one of the oldest chapters in the Alabama 
Division; on the Soldiers’ Home Committee as Treasurer and Vice- 
President of the State, occupying each office two years, and is now 
the President, a position which by her gracious personality and clear 
judgment she fills with ability—1919-1920. 

She is serving the U. D. 0. as Custodian of Flags and Pennants. 
She has been President of the Montgomery Young Women’s Christian 
Association for several years, is ex-Regent of the Francis Marion 
Chapter, D. A. R., and has been District Chairman in the Alabama Fed¬ 
eration of Women’s Clubs. She is a member of the Presbyterian 
church, is interested in all activities pertaining to the welfare of her 
city and State. 

In December, 1873, she was married to James Harvey Crenshaw, of 
Montgomery, a successful and prominent business man. Six children 
have been born to this happy union. 





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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


107 


MRS. GEORGE T. FULLER, 

No woman in Kentucky has given more time to U. D. C. interests 
and Confederate causes than Mrs. Geo. T. Fuller, Corresponding Sec¬ 
retary of Kentucky Division. She is also Acting Registrar and through 
her untiring labor and devotion Kentucky can claim a complete regis¬ 
tration of her U. D. C. membership—1919-1920. 

Since 1909 she has been Chairman of Camp Beauregard Monument 
Committee, which was completed July, 1920, at Water Valley, Ky., in 
memory of the loyal men from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, 
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee, who died there Sep¬ 
tember, 1861, to March, 1862, and were thus denied the glory of heroic 
service in battle. 

Mrs. Fuller comes from a fine old Kentucky family, the daughter of 
Eld. W. F. and Mary Samuels Lowe, her father a Baptist minister and 
writer of ability. She has ever reflected the impress of her father’s 
noble character, and the influence of a Christian mother, being a most 
active member of the Baptist Church since early girlhood. Mrs. Fuller 
has a long record of good work, is a charter member and one of the 
first presidents of the Mayfield Chapter, was one of the promoters of 
the Mayfield and Graves 'County Confederate Memorial, was the pro¬ 
moter of the humane drinking fountain, as well as the fountains in the 
Mayfield schools, has ever been one of her city’s most active philan¬ 
thropic workers, spending much of her time and energy among the poor. 
She was President of the Mayfield Woman’s Club, and one of her 
county’s most active Red Cross workers. She has always taken a great 
interest in educational and club work*, having been a teacher of ability 
at seventeen years of age, always lending her aid and co-operation in 
any movement for the progress and uplift of the community. She is 
the great, great niece of Felix Grundy, a prominent criminal lawyer 
of Nashville, Tenn., who filled many important offices of State and 
served as Attorney General during Van Buren’s administration. In 
November, 1887, she was married to Dr. Geo. T. Fuller ,a prominent 
young physician, who was first appointed by Governor Bradley as a 
member of the State Board of Health of Kentucky, in which capacity 
he has served continuously with the exception of one and a half years 
under the Republican Administration. Four noble sons and three 
lovely daughters blessed this union. 





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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


109 


MRS. S. E. F. ROSE. 

The late Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confed¬ 
eracy was born September 14th, 1862, at Crescent View, the family 
estate near Pulaski, Tenn. She was the daughter of William M. Mar¬ 
tin and Lizzie Gerin Martin. Her father’s ancestors were of Welsh 
origin, emigrating to Virginia in the early days. Through her mother, 
a beautiful and brilliant woman, she is descended from the Huguenots 
of France. 

Mrs. Rose spent her early girlhood at Crescent View and in Pulaski, 
Tennessee, was educated at Martin College at Pulaski, founded by her 
grandfather, and later at colleges in Kentucky and in Baltimore, Md. 
In October, 1881, she was married to Solon E. F. Rose, a banker of Pu¬ 
laski, Tenn., and son of an eminent Tennessee lawyer. 

In 1884 Mr. and Mrs. Rose moved to Mississippi, to be near Mrs. 
Rose’s extensive Mississippi plantation, residing first at Columbus and 
later at West Point. Mrs. Rose was the mother of three children, one 
daughter, Lizzie Otis Rose, who died in 1902, while at Ward’s Semi¬ 
nary, Nashville, Tenn., and two sons, Martin and Clifton Rose, of West 
Point, Miss. 

Mrs. Rose was known throughout the Southland as a woman of 
broad and finished culture, brilliant intellectual attainments, and most 
compelling personal charm. She was an authoress of splendid ability, 
having been a large contributor to magazines and other publication . 
In 1914 she published her book on the Ku Klux Klan, which attracted 
much favorable comment. At the national U. D. C. convention in 1919, 
she was unanimously elected Historian General of the U. D. C., having 
previously served as Historian of the John M. Stone Chapter, West 
Point, Miss., for three years, Chapter President for an equal length of 
time, State Historian of the Mississippi Division for two years, 1910 
and 1911,. and in the same capacity for the years 1912 and 1913 as 
chairman of Book Committee for the correction of history, and as 
chairman of Beauvoir Monument Committee. 

At the time of her death, on May 6, 1919, Mrs. Rose was Historian 
General of the U. D. C , and though she had been active along many 
lines of club work, far her greatest work was for the U. D. C., and 
the Mississippi Division reached its climax during her administration 
as President. To those who asked regarding the secret of her success 
she replied, “My heart is in it,” and to her last moment she had the 
IT. D. C. and the good she could accomplish for the organization at 
heart. 





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MRS. E. W. WARREN. 


The daughters of the South who we^e tested in the crucible of the 
Civil War came forth endued with a strength which almost passes 
understanding. Schooled in a curriculum where sacrifice was funda¬ 
mental, the succeeding years could formulate no impossible demands. 
Trained to withstand the storm, skilled in vizualizing the ray of hope 
when clouds were blackest, humbly and proudly dependent on Him 
who watching over Israel slumbers not nor sleeps, they brought to the 
reconstruction days that faith and optimism and more than finite 
strength upon which the New South so firmly stands today. The 
subject of this sketch is one of those uncrowned heroines of the Sixties. 

Caroline Mary Bacon Warren was born July 7th, 1837, in Liberty 
County, Ga. She was the second daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Edwin 
Henry Bacon. Her girlhood was passed upon the Liberty County plan¬ 
tation to which she returned after taking the Bachelor of Arts de¬ 
gree from Cox College in LaGrange. Here she lived with her mother 
and sisters during the years of the war. Colonel E. H. Bacon, her 
father, and Major ±Li. H. Bacon, her eldest brother, were at the head 
of their commands, and De Witt Clinton and Albert Sumner, lads in 
their early teens, were following the Stars and Bars with unflagging 
steps until at Gettysburg the former was severely wounded and both 
were captured. During these four years the mother and daughters 
lived on the old plantation, served by the colored folk whose love 
and fidelity were unwavering, knitting, sewing, praying, their zeal 
untiring, their faith undimmed. And from it they came forth won¬ 
der-women, the wood and hay and stubble consumed in the fires of 
trial, the gold and silver and precious stones remaining for their 
building. 

At the close of the war the reunited family moved to Savannah and 
here she was joined in marriage with Dr. Ebenezer Willis Warren, 
pastor of the First Baptist church of Macon. Throughout the twenty- 
five years of this pastorate and during the pastorates of the First 
Baptist churches of Atlanta and Richmond, Va., she fulfilled the rich 
promise of her girlhood, and her husband, her children and her friends 
reaped the glorious increase of her early planting. After the deatli 
of her husband in 1893, she lived at the old home in Macon, from 
which she was called to her great reward on November 10th, 1917. 

Cultured and consecrated, with marvelous mental gifts and su¬ 
perb physical endowment, she was fitted for any sphere. She chose 
the highest. As wife, as mother and as friend she gave unstintingly. 
Absolutely without thought of self, no sacrifice was too great, nor 
was it accounted sacrifice. Her Master’s mind was hers, His will her 
will. Now in His presence she has reached the goal, yet ever in the 
encompassing cloud of witnesses and through the agents before His 
face, her influence continues. 








MRS. C. C. SANDERS 















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MRS. C. C. SANDERS. 

Mrs. C. C. Sanders, State Treasurer U. D. C. for six years, from 
1903-1919; Treasurer Wirz Monument Fund, member Rabun Gap School 
Board, member State Scholarship Committee, President Longstreet 
Chapter, U. D. C., for ten years, and now Honorary President of that 
Chapter for life; charter member of Gainesville Red Cross organized in 
1917; member of executive board Gainesville Red Cross, 1917-1920, 
member Home Service Department, Red Cross 1917-1920, Chairman U. 
D. C. unit Red Cross (local) 1917-1920, Chairman of Woman’s Work in 
Gainesville of Second Liberty Loan. 

Mrs. Fannie Scarborough Sanders was born in Smithville, Ga., the 
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Scarborough, who were numbered among the 
prominent families of Lee County. Her father died when she was a 
baby, and her mother married Dr. M. D. Sanders, a widely known and 
highly respected physician of Lee County also. 

As a young lady Miss Scarborough was much admired for her beauty 
and for her gentle charm of manner. She was married in 1871 to 
Colonel C. C. Sanders, a younger brother of her step-father. After their 
marriage Colonel and Mrs. Sanders came to Gainesville, where they have 
since lived, leaders not only in the Baptist Church, but in all the social 
and civic life of the town. 

There is no woman in Gainesville more generally loved and revered 
than Mrs. Sanders. As a testimony of this love and esteem which her 
friends have for her, the members of the Longstreet Chapter, U. D. C., 
presented her with a loving cup some few years ago on which is en¬ 
graved: 

‘ ‘ To a gracious lady—lovely type of American womanhood about 
whose name gather tender memories of the Confederacy; whose courage 
and patriotism have wrought noble deeds for the chastened, strengthened 
Union; whose loyalty and faith have been as a star to guide our way; 
whose unselfish devotion and gentle heart have won our love.” 

Upon the entrance of the United States into the Allied War against 
Germany in 1917, Mrs. Sanders became an active worker in all the local 
work organized to help her country. She was a charter member of the 
local Red Cross in 1917, became a member of its executive council; was 
Vice-Chairman of the Home Service Department of the Red Cross and 
became the leader of the U. D. C. unit work in the Red Cross. 


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MRS. JACK SI E DANIEL THRASH 










REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OE THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. JACKSIE DANIEL THRASH. 

Mrs. Jaeksie Daniel Thrash is referred to as “the War President 
of the North Carolina Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, ’ ’ 
she having served this Division (that reported the best in .War Relief 
Work) through the entire World War. 

Born and reared in the “Old North State,’’ graduating at an early 
age, she took special training in music and languages in Baltimore, 
Maryland. She is of royal and heroic stock. Her mother, grandmother 
and grandfather descended from John Cromwell, brother of the re¬ 
nowned Oliver. Her grandmother’s mother was a descendant of Capt. 
James McDowell of Scotland. The father of Oliver and Charles Crom¬ 
well was Robert Cromwell, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. By 
both grandmother and grandfather she traces her ancestry back to 
royal families of Scotland and England. (See the History of England 
and Van Noppin’s History of the distinguished men and women of 
North Carolina.) 

Her eligibility to the United Daughters of the Confederacy came 
through her maternal grandfather, Colonel Elisha Cromwell, of Tarboro, 
who commanded the 44th N. C. Regiment 1861-65, and her father, An¬ 
drew Jackson Daniel, who was Sergeant of Company F, 61st Regiment, 
at the age of sixteen. She has established her eligibility to the Scot¬ 
tish Society and the Daughters of the American Revolution also. 

The North Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Con¬ 
federacy, under Mrs. Thrash, had every reason to be proud of its work, 
as illustrated at the general convention, U. D. C. Twice it won the 
Raines Banner for the best historical work done during the past two 
years. It also won the Ricks Banner for the third time, this being 
for the children’s chapter doing the best work. The State made an¬ 
other high record as to gain in membership, having registered the great¬ 
est number of new members, 331. It tied South Carolina in educational 
honors and submitted the best war relief report. In addition it was 
the only State able to report that it had completed its endowment, of 
the Confederate Museum at Richmond. 


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MRS. JAMES MARION HICKS 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. JAMES MARION HICKS. 

Lydia Burr Hicks, wife of James Marion Hicks and mother of Marion 
and William Hicks, is the youngest daughter of Col. William Hughson 
Burr and Sarah Borden. She is descended through both paternal and 
maternal lines from well-known New England families of Puritan stock, 
who have made loyal and patriotic citizens in many walks of life. 

Mrs. Hicks’ father, Col. Wm, H. Burr, was born in South Carolina in 
1836 and died in Talladega, Alabama, in 1900. He was one of the most 
fearless and gallant Confederate soldiers of the many who answered 
the call in 1861. Leaving his young wife to superintend his planta¬ 
tion and slaves, he enlisted as a private in the ever to be remembered 
5th Alabama Infantry, commanded by General Rhodes. He was rap¬ 
idly promoted, and at the end of the conflict bore the rank of Colonel, 
a title richly deserved, for he was ever found in the thickest of the con¬ 
flict, or on some mission that demanded brains and bravery, and was 
twice severely wounded. 

Mrs. Burr was a woman of the old South, cultured, consecrated and 
of noble qualities. She was a connecting link between the past and 
present, entering into the changing order with keenest interest, and 
few women took a greater part in any movement which would tend to 
better her town or church. 

Naturally Mrs. Hicks has inherited a spirit of patriotism and loyalty 
to the traditions of her ancestors that has made her a devoted Daugh¬ 
ter of the Confederacy and to the Veterans of the 60’s. While living 
in Montgomery she was for years an influential member of Sophie Bibb 
Chapter, and since returning to Talladega of the John T. Morgan, of 
which cnapter she is at present Vice-President. She organized an aux¬ 
iliary to this chapter and became the first Director and it seemed fitting 
it should bear the name of her honored father. She brought such zeal 
and enthusiasm to the office, the Wm. H. Burr Children of the Confed¬ 
eracy soon won first place and was presented with the State banner 
for its work. She was soon after made State Director of the Children 
of the Confederacy and in this capacity served two terms with marked 
success and executive ability, organizing six new auxiliaries and com¬ 
pleting our scholarship. 

In 1918 she was elected State Historian, and while only in office 
part of a term yet^she has been most active in her work, urging the 
study of Confederate history in schools and chapters, assisting often in 
arranging programs for Year Books and exercises, and whenever pos¬ 
sible insisting upon veterans preserving in print personal experiences 
during the war, thus using her influence to have the South’s history 
pure and truthful for generations yet to come. 




MRS. FRANK G. ODENHEIMER 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


119 


MRS. FRANK G. ODENREIMER. 

Mrs. F. G. Odenheimer of Washington, D. C., ex-President-Generai of 
the U. D. C., was before her marriage Miss Cordelia Powell, daughter 
of Captain Edward Burr Powell, a distinguished Confederate soldier 
who equipped and commanded the first troop of cavalry going out of 
Fairfax, Va., and who fought continuously from first Bull Run to Ap¬ 
pomattox. She also had five uncles in the war, one of whom, Col. 
Llewellyn Powell, resigned from the United States Navy when Virginia 
seceded and was in command of the Gulf forces and was killed in ac¬ 
tion while in this command. Her mother was Mrs. Cordelia Sotiioron 
Powell, who with her children sought refuge in Middleburg, Va., when 
Alexandria was invaded. While living at Middleburg she spent hours 
each day nursing in the hospital there. 

In June, 1900, Mrs. Odenheimer became President of the Frank A. 
Bond Chapter of tne U. D. C. She served in tliis capacity until 1905. 
She also in 1901 became Second Vice-President of the Maryland Divi¬ 
sion, which position she filled until 1906. In 1906 she became Presi¬ 
dent of the Maryland Division, serving in that capacity until 1911. 

Mrs. Odenheimer’s official connection with the general organization 
began in 1911, when she was made First Vice-President General. She 
filled this o__ce until 1913. In 1915 she was made President General, 
holding this position until 1915. When she took this office she was 
already no novice in the task of presiding over this great body. In 
1912, when First Vice-President General, she had presided over the 
general convention in Washington City, when the President, Mrs. Alex¬ 
ander B. White, was absent on account of sickness. 

She was from the beginning of that undertaking Director General of 
the Arlington Monument and at the time of the laying of the Arlington 
Monument Cornerstone, she presided as Acting President General, and 
placed the second trowel of cement to the stone. The first trowel was 
placed by Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, the second by Mrs. Cordelia Powell 
Odenheimer, the third by Miss Mary Custis Lee and the fourth by Mr. 
Wallace Streater. This was in 1912. 

Mrs. Odenheimer was also Director-General, from the beginning, of 
the Shiloh Monument and on May 17tli, she, as President General, 
turned over this monument to the United States Government at Shiloh 
National Military Park. 

At the reunion of the United Confederate Veterans at Birmingham 
in 1916, she was Matron of Honor for the South, and she held the same 
position at the reunion in Washington in 1917. At the Birmingham 
reunion she was also Chaperone for the Sponsor for the South for the 
Sons of Confederate Veterans. 

Such a record bears its own eloquent testimony to the high regard in 
which this distinguished Daughter of the Confederacy is held and would 
render any general statement or tribute superfluous. Mrs. Odenheimer 
is one whom the Daughters of the Confederacy everywhere delight to 
honor. 





MRS. ELIZABETH IIARKISON BEAL 









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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


MRS. ELIZABETH HARRISON BEAL. 

It is a happy privilege to incorporate within the pages of this 
historical compilation the career of one who has lent such dignity and 
honor to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. 

Her distinguished father, Graven Weaver Harrison, was a cavalry¬ 
man who joined Captain Gordon’s Company at Lewisburg, Arkansas, 
1961, and gave constant and gallant service until killed in the noted 
‘‘Price’s Raid,” in Missouri, 1864. The riderless horse returning to 
his old home, was the first warning to the anxious wife of the fate 
of her husband. 

Mrs. Beal joined the Memorial Chapter when it was first organized 
as a U. D. C. Chapter, 1895. It was formerly a Memorial Association. 
Her worth was soon recognized and she was elected President of her 
Chapter in 1909. She served two years. Besides other important work 
she organized two auxiliary Chapters. This was the beginning of the 
C. C. work in the State. 

At the close of her administration she was appointed State Chair¬ 
man of Educational Work. At the time of her appointment the State 
had only one scholarship. She increased this to eight with a valuation 
of $1,000.00. She also served on the General Educational Committee 
for several years. 

In 1916 she was elected State President and was such an able 
leader during the anxious time she was induced to serve three years 
as State President. Every phase of war and relief work found her 
ready and willing to assist. Miss Poppenheim appointed her on the 
War and Relief Committee; she was District Chairman of United 
War work; served on all Liberty Bond drives (is the proud possessor 
of two medals for this service); was Red Cross Chairman of District 
and give all her spare time to that work and contributed liberally to 
the U. S. Hospital in France. 

She was a member of the Confederate Council at Little Rock since 
its organization; served on David O. Cobb Committee that raised about 
$3,000.00 for a monument to Arkansas’ hero. Every State Convention 
since 1909 and General Convention since 1910 has been attended by her. 

For years it has been her pleasure to visit the Veterans of the 
Confederate Home with gifts of flowers and other good things to 
brighten their lives. Their appreciation was shown when the Veterans 
of Omer Weaver Camp selected her as the Chaperone to Reunion at 
Birmingham, Alabama. She was also honored by the U. S. V. several 
times. Was chaperone for Sons at the Trans-Mississippi Reunion, 
Macon, Georgia., Matron of Honor for Robert Newton Camp, Little 
Rock, at Birmingham, Alabama, Matron of Honor for Sons of Arkansas 
at Washington Reunion. 






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123 


MRS. FRED A. WOODARD. 

The North Carolina Division was happy in its selection of Mrs. 
Fred A. Woodard, of Wilson, as its Chaplain. 

The daughter of Rev. Jeffrey H. Robbins of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and reared at Trinity College, where a large majority of the 
Methodist ministers of North Carolina have received their inspiration 
and training, Mrs. Woodard early imbibed the Christian faith to which 
she consecrated her life. 

Her father responding to the call of his beloved South, as he had 
to the call of his Master, volunteered for service in the Confederate 
army and was assigned to Hardee’s Corps of Johnson’s Division, where 
he served as Chaplain for three years. 

Mrs. Woodard imbibed her love for the Confederacy as she did her 
religion—a combination which eminently fitted her for the sacred posi¬ 
tion she holds. 

Soon after her marriage to the late Hon. F. A. Woodard, himself a 
son of the Confederacy, a member of the Congress from the Second 
North Carolina District, and one of the most beloved men of the State, 
the John W. Dunham Chapter U. D. C. was organized with Mrs. Wood¬ 
ard as one of its charter members. 

This Chapter has prospered under her able leadership, and is one 
of the strongest and most effective in the North Carolina Division. 
Mrs. Woodard has served as its President several times and has rep¬ 
resented it at State and general conventions frequently. 

Her appointment on the Executive Board of the Division was a tribute 
to her beautiful Christian character. Her splendid executive ability 
and her untiring zeal for the TJ. D. C. cause is greatly appreciated by 
the membership of her home Chapter. 

Mrs. Woodard is also an interested member of the Caswell-Nash 
Chapter D. A. R. and a leader in church, charitable and patriotic work/ 







MRS. OSCAR BARTHOLD 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


125 


MRS. OSCAR BARTHOLD. 

Mrs. Oscar Barthold, nee Miss Annie E. Hill, of Knoxville, Tenn., 
is the daughter of Matthew Knox Hill and his wife, Eliza Jane Rodgers 
Hill, born July £'2, 1868, and was married in Knoxville to Oscar Bar¬ 
thold of Weatherford, Texas, December 29, 1891. They have one child, 
Eva Hill Barthold, now Mrs. Robert Carter, of Weatherford. Mrs. 
Barthold attended the public schools and St. Joseph’s Convent of Knox¬ 
ville, is a graduate of Friendsville College, Friendsville, Tenn., and 
holds a five seal diploma of Chautauqua, N. Y. 

She was a founder of Sam Lanham Chapter, 1902, and has held 
every office in the organization and is its present historian. For many 
years she has been prominent in State work of the Daughters of the 
Confederacy, two years Chairman of Richmond Museum, five years 
Chairman of printing, two years Chairman of rules and regulations 
and is now President of the U. D. C. 

She is also prominent in club work and was a charter member of 
the Twentieth Century Club and has held every office in the gift of 
its members, under the auspices of which she helped to organize and 
maintain the Soldiers ’ Recreational Home during the rifle range en¬ 
campment. She helped to introduce food conservation throughout the 
city and is now one of the promoters of the Soldiers 1 Memorial Drive 
of Parker County. 

Mrs. Barthold took a leading part in all war activities during the 
World War, being a leader in Liberty Loan, Red Cross and other de¬ 
partments of war work. She was war President of Texas Division 
United Daughters of the Confederacy, and during her administration 
the organization has endowed el^en beds in the American Hospital, 
Nueillv, France, and assisted in every form of war work and plans are 
now being formulated for extensive reconstruction work. 

She was a charter member and the retiring Regent of the Weather¬ 
ford Chapter D. A. R. She is now county Chairman of the French 
War Orphans’ Committee, N. S. D. A. R., with the work in splendid 
condition. 

Sue ably assisted the chairman, Mrs. H. C. Shropshire, in organiz¬ 
ing the Woman’s Council of Defense, and served in securing Red 
Cross nurses during the government’s call for them. She has found 
time to knit for the soldiers, make surgical supplies, etc. 

She is identified with the Mother’s Clubs of the city, interested in 
child welfare work and an active member of the Southern Presbyterian 
church. In her home and social life she is of the true old fashioned 
Southern type. 




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MRS. JAMES HENRY WEST 






































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127 


MRS. JAMES HENRY WEST. 

Emily Scott West, though a native of Spartanburg County, South 
Carolina, has spent most of her life in Newberry, South Carolina. She 
was elected President of the Drayton Rutherford Chapter, U. D. C., in 
1914, and at the close of her term was elected Chapter Historian, which 
office she still holds. 

Though interested in all branches of U. D. C. activity, her main 
work lias been along the line of investigating school histories and elim¬ 
inating unfair books from city and school libraries. 

On her father’s side Mrs. West is entitled to membership in the U. 
D. 0. through both father and grandfather, and through five uncles 
on the side of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ward Scott. 

William Basye Scott, grandfather, was a native of Spartanburg, 
South Carolina. He was First Lieutenant in Company A,, First Bat¬ 
talion Blanchard’s Brigade, State (S. C.) Reserves. Being over the 
age for service he was in the army only a year and a half, but suffered 
his share of the hardships in the lower part of the State and participated 
in the closing events in North Carolina. He was a Captain in the 
Militia before the war. 

Marion J. Scott, the father of Mrs. West, was Third Lieutenant in 
the same company, though only seventeen years of age, and was a most 
enthusiastic soldier. He was so very ill when they were ordered toward 
North Carolina that he had to be left in a hospital at Cheraw, S. C. 
When Sherman’s army took this town, he was paroJed, but having no 
w r av to ride, it took him fourteen days to reach his home in Spartan¬ 
burg County. 

Throughout his life lie was keenly interested in all that pertained 
to the Confederacy, was a subscriber to the Confederate Veteran, and 
attended many reunions. 

Of the five soldier uncles, Napoleon B. Ward, Company A, 5th South 
Carolina Infantry, was badly wounded in the shoulder at Malvern Hill, 
and later was captured at Knoxville and sent to Rock Island prison 
where he remained for fourteen months; Andrew Jackson Ward, Com¬ 
pany G, 27th South Carolina Regiment, Buist’s Artillery, was captured 
and sent to Elmira prison where he died and was buried in Woodlawn 
Cemetery; John W. Ward was in the cavalry, Second Sergeant, Company 
B, First Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, and was wounded in 
the mouth at Smitlifield, N. C.; Thomas Jefferson Ward was also in 
the cavalry, Company B, First Regiment South Carolina Volunteers; 
Francis Marion Ward enlisted in Arkansas and served in the Commis¬ 
sary Department under Major Street. 

Mrs. West was elected Historian of the South Carolina Division at 
its last convention in Columbia, December, 1919. During the World 
War she was Chairman of the Red Cross Auxiliary of her chapter, and 
was Secretary of the local branch of the Woman’s Committee of the 
National Council of Defense. She is also a member of the Daughters 
of 1812 and the Daughters of the American Revolution. 





MRS. E. L. CONNALLY 






REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF TIIE SOUTH. 


129 


MRS. E. L. CONNALLY. 

Mary Virginia Brown, daughter of Joseph Emerson and Elizabeth 
Gresham Brown, was born January 5th, 1850, in Canton, Georgia. 

Her father was at the time in the State Senate. Later he became 
Judge of the Blue Ridge Circuit and in 1857 he was elected Governor 
and moved to Milledgeville, then the capital of the State. lie held this 
office for eight years. Later he became Chief Justice Supreme Court, 
and then United States Senator, but was always known as the “War 
Governor of Georgia.’’ 

Mary Virginia Brown, as a child lived in the Executive Mansion and 
helped to illuminate it the night Georgia seceded. She was in Mil¬ 
ledgeville at the time of Stoneman’s raid. Her train got out just be¬ 
fore Sherman’s men came in. The Legislature had adjourned and Gov. 
Brown sent a train out of Milledgeville packed with valuable State 
property and papers. The Capital was temporarily moved to Macon. 
She has vivid memories of the stress and strain of these times. 

Her mother uniformed a company of soldiers from Fannin County, 
who were called “Mrs. Joe Brown’s Boys.” Sewing was done for them 
by the Milledgeville women and the clothing stored in the Mansion. For 
these soldiers Mary Brown, with other little girls knitted and sewed and 
went to carry delicacies to the wounded in a hospital which occupied 
two old academy buildings across from the Mansion. 

Spinning, weaving and dyeing cloth was done in the homes, and all 
wore homespin. 

She married Dr. E. L. Connallv, an ex-( onfederate soldier, who was 
with the first Confederate regiment as assistant surgeon. 

Mrs. Connally has been interested in all patriotic, civic and religious 
movements of her community. She is a life member of the D. A. R., a 
member of U. D. C., U. D. of 18J2, one of the early members of the 
Atlanta Woman’s Club, the Sheltering Arms, W. C. Community Service. 
For seventeen years she has been Secretary of the Georgia Baptist Or¬ 
phans’ Home Association. She is Vice President of the Uncle Remus 
Memorial Association. 

From the age of sixteen she has been a devoted member of the 
church, having been a member of the Second Baptist Church for fifty 
years. 

Her ancestors served in the Revolution and in the War of 1812. 
Her son, Joseph Brown Connally, did honorable service in France in 
the great war against Germany. The other children of Dr. and Mrs. 
Connally are: Mrs. John S. Spalding, who has five daughters, Mr. 
Tlios. W. Connally, Mrs. Hiram Warner Martin and Mrs. Hal F. Hentz. 


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MISS JEANIE DAVIESS BLACKBURN. 

Miss Jeanie Daviess Blackburn, daughter of the late General and 
Mrs. Samuel Daviess Blackburn, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and her 
sister, Juliet Marshall Blackburn, wife of the Hon. William Fort Wil¬ 
liams, Atlanta, Georgia, are the only surviving members of the family. 

Of gentle birth, refined and cultured, an accomplished musician, 
extensive travel at home and abroad have added interest to inherited 
social prestige and attractive personality. To quote: “Miss Jeanie 
Blackburn sang ‘ O Luce De Quest Anima, ’ from Linda. This aria 
was well adapted to her beautiful soprano voice and rare execution. ” 
Nashville Banner, “Miss Jeanie Blackburn, was one of the most at¬ 
tractive beauties at the Bowling Green Fair Hop last evening. Tall 
and graceful, she never appeared more brilliant and charming. ” 

An Episcopalian, interested in church activities, she sang in the 
choir for years, oftentimes played the harp. She is a club woman, a 
charter member of the local Red Cross society. A daughter of the 
Confederacy, founder of the Albert Sidney Johnson Chapter, U. D. C., 
Louisville, Kentucky, and one of its original officers, and one of the 
delegates to the annual U. D. C. conference at Richmond, Virginia. 
In enlarging the committee of Southern Cross of Honor there, Mrs. 
Edwin G. Weed, President General U. D. C., appointed Miss Black¬ 
burn on it, and with two others and Miss Mildred Rutherford, chair¬ 
man, they met at the home of Mrs. Ellis, Atlanta, Georgia, and drafted 
the first rules governing its bestowal. Founder of the Samuel Daviess 
Chapter, D. A. R., Bowling Green, Kentucky, she was its regent thir¬ 
teen years, interested in rewarding moonlight schools, taking Liberty 
Bonds, adopting French orphans and later contributing to the Armenians. 
She was Vice Regent, State Regent, and now Kentucky Vice-President- 
General N. S. D. A. R. She was a delegate to the National Conserva¬ 
tion Congresses at Kansas City and Indianapolis. She belongs to the 
Colonial Dames Society of America, the “Open Sesame” to delightful 
things with unofficial Washingtonians. 

Her last acquired honor is having been elected Kentucky President 
of the Confederated Southern Woman’s Memorial Association at the 
last Confederate Reunion, Atlanta, Georgia, 1919, and organizing a 
chapter in Bowling Green, Kentucky. 

(Written by a friend.) 



















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133 


MRS. ADRIAN WILBUR ARGO. 

Mrs. Flora Adair Argo wife of Adrian Wilbur Argo of Talladega, 
Alabama, is tlie daughter of Hamilton Landon Adair and Martha Eliza¬ 
beth Bridges. The forefathers of both parents were men who fought 
bravely in the Revolution and in the War between the States. Way- 
man Adair, grandfather of Mrs. Argo, was a Confederate Veteran be¬ 
longing to Company I, 14th Alabama Regiment. After serving at the 
front for a short time, he was returned home because of a petition from 
the women of the community to military authorities asking that he be 
allowed to remain there to protect and supply the women and children 
with food, all able-bodied men being in the army. Her maternal grand¬ 
father, Thomas Bridges, also a veteran, was born July 5, 1834, joined 
Company A, 59th Regiment, Grace’s Brigade of the Western Army, 
in 1862, was wounded at Chicamauga Valley, Georgia, in 1863 and again 
at Drury’s Bluff, losing the use of his right hand, and he died Sep¬ 
tember 26, 1907. Mrs. Argo is also the great-niece of Joseph Bridges, 
who was born November 6, 1830, joined Company A, 59th Regiment, 
Grace’s Brigade of the Western Army, in 1862, and died of disease 
at Tazewell, Tennessee, September 16, 1962; Jefferson Bridges, born 
July 10, 1837, joined Company B, 12th Regiment, Battle’s Brigade, 
Ewell’s Corps of Eastern Army,, in 1861, was wounded at Gettysburg, 
Pennsylvania, July 2, 1862, and died of wounds July 16, 1862’; and Jona¬ 
than Bridges, born June 1, 1842, joined the same company with his 
brother, Jefferson, in the fall of 1862’, was wounded at Gettysburg, 
Pennsylvania, losing his left arm, and died May 30, 1915. 

Mrs. Argo is a member of the John T. Morgan Chapter and h.yr 
interest has always been most marked. She has served her chapter in 
almost every capacity having been President twice, a frequent dele¬ 
gate to State conventions, and often a member of standing committees. 
This chapter w r as never more active than during her administration. 
It grew in strength as well as in numbers. During this period money 
was raised to entertain the State convention and to send five veterans 
to the Washington reunion. The William H. Burr, too, worked with 
such zeal that it was twice awarded the State banner for excellence. 
As Chairman of the Red Cross Comfort Kit Committee, Mrs. Argo was 
most active, and hundreds of kits were made and presented to sol¬ 
diers leaving for the front. She is just beginning her work as Direc¬ 
tor of C. of C. and is putting forth every effort to make her term 
successful. 

Mrs. Argo is the mother of five sons and one daughter. The eldest, 
Edwin Yancey, left college to enlist as a private in the World War. 
After six months’ training he was made First Lieutenant in 117th 
Field Artillery, and went to France with the Dixie Division. At pres¬ 
ent he is serving in the Regular Army, 82nd Field Artillery. 




ANTIONETTE EUGENIA BRANNON MARTHA ADRIAN ARGO 

The Alabama Banner Chapter of the Children of the Confederacy. 

(Talladega, Ala.) 





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THE ALABAMA C. OF C. 

At the sixtli annual convention, Mrs. A. L. Dowdell, President, said 
in her annual address: “I would recommend to your consideration the 
Children of the Confederacy. The young of the South need your care 
and it is time we enlist their interest and have them know the truth 
and learn something of the unparalleled bravery of the Confederate 
soldier, and I would suggest a committee on Children of the Confed¬ 
eracy.” Mrs. F. S. Word was appointed Chairman of the Children of 
the Confederacy, Alabama Division, and after an instructive discus¬ 
sion on organizing the Children of the Confederacy, a standing com¬ 
mittee was appointed for this purpose. 

In Tuscaloosa, at the seventh annual convention, Mrs. Dowdell, in 
her annual address, said: “The Executive Board of our Division met 
at my home in Opelika, February 10th. One important feature of that 
meeting was the adoption of a constitution for the Children of the 
Confederacy, preparatory to organizing them into auxiliaries of the 
U. D. C. Chapters. ” At this convention four Children Chapters were 
reported. Camden had the first Chapter of C. of C. in the State. Since 
that time the C. of C. has enrolled in Alabama fifty-three auxiliaries, 
with twelve hundred members. There are always a dozen standing 
prizes for children, and also a banner presented every year to the C. 
of C. having the best report. 

BANNER AUXILIARIES. 

Emma Sanson, 1909 and 1910; Winnie Davis, auxiliary to Mont¬ 
gomery, 1913; Geo. P. Harrison, auxiliary to Auburn 1914 and 1915 
Joe Wheeler auxiliary to Odenville, banner 1916; Marion Wilmer Jones, 
Mobile, banner 1919; William H. Burr, auxiliary to John T. Morgan, 
Talladega, has held the baner 1911, 1912, 1917, 1918, and 1920, at the 
twenty-fourth annual convention, bore the banner home again. 




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MRS. JAMES LOUIS STUNSTON. 

Beulah Winn Stunston, the daughter of Albert McNeill Winn and 
Frances Curd, traces her ancestry through the Winn-Snead lines of 
Virginia to revolutionary and colonial patriots. She is distinguished 
among Kentucky women as a patriotic and public health worker, having 
been appointed by Gov. Owsley Stanley, a member of the Board of 
Kentucky Tuberculosis Commission, and served as Vice-President of that 
body, under Governor Stanley, the President. During her term of 
office Mrs. Stunston became a careful student of the care and pre¬ 
vention of tuberculosis and has acquired a fund of valuable informa¬ 
tion, a knowledge she has freely used in social welfare work among 
the poor of her State. She has also served as Secretary of the Ken¬ 
tucky Health and Welfare League, and is a Director of the Kentucky 
Public Health Nurse Work. 

In September, 1919, Mrs. Stunston was unanimously elected Presi¬ 
dent of the Kentucky Division U. D. C. This election was only the 
natural outcome of long and loyal service to the Division. For years 
she has been an earnest worker, having served the Mayfield Chapter 
for two terms as President, a reward for work well done in the ranks, 
where she did everything her hands found to do in making the chapter 
a valuable patriotic organization in her home city. The two terms 
Mrs. Stunston served as Recording Secretary of the Kentucky Divi¬ 
sion, were marked by constructive work that added to the usefulness 
and strength of the U. D. C. in Kentucky. 

Mrs. Stunston is a member of the Woman’s Advisory Committee 
to the Board of the Kentucky Confederate Home. She is devoted to 
the interests of the Confederate Veteran, and stands ready to give 
time and strength to the rebuilding of the Home destroyed by fire 
in March, 1920. At Confederate reunions she devotes her time to giv¬ 
ing pleasure and comfort to the veterans. She has attended manv 
reunions and served in positions of high honor by appointment of 
Commanders of Divisions and Departments. She is a member of the 1920 
General Convention’s Finance Committee and will serve that convention 
as Chairman of Pages. 

During the World War no woman in Kentucky gave more valuable 
service in Red Cross, Liberty Loan and Council of National Defense 
work. She served her country as she has always served the State, with 
courage, enthusiasm and devotion. 

Mrs. Stunston is one of the most beautiful women of her State, 
and is gracious and charming in manner. She was born in Mayfield, 
Kentucky, and married James Louis Stunson, a leading banker and 
capitalist of that city. They have one son, Louis Winn Stunston. 
Their handsome home is the scene of much old time Kentucky hospi¬ 
tality, where the latch string is ever on the outside, and stranger and 
friend alike are welcomed and where “gladsome looks of household 
love meet in the ruddy light.” 






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MRS. JOSEPH HENRY JOHNSON. 

Nellie Guild Hall, wife of Dr. Joseph Henry Johnson, Jr., A. M., 
Principal of the Alabama School for the Deaf and Blind, was born in 
Tuscaloosa, Ala., daughter of Dr. John Edward Hall, of Maryland and 
Virginia Guild of Tuscaloosa. 

Dr. Hall was a prominent physician and surgeon appointed full 
surgeon in C. S. A., with rank of Major, serving with General Robert E. 
Lee on the field of battle 1861-2 and Surgeon of Posts in Alabama and 
Georgia 1863-5. Virginia Guild was the daughter of Dr. James Guild, 
Sr., and Mary Elizabeth Williams. 

Dr. Guild was among the early pioneers of Tuscaloosa County and 
one of the most distinguished physicians and surgeons of his day. As 
a lithotomist he enjoyed a national reputation. 

He had four sons prominent in the Confederate States army, Surgeon 
General LaFayette Guild, member of the staff of General Robert E. 
Lee, Medical Director and Chief Surgeon of the Army of Northern Vir¬ 
ginia; Captain Joseph Conn Guild, Captain of the Black Warriors, Co. 
K, Twentieth Regiment, Alabama Infantry, C. S. A., which compan}' 
he raised in Tuscaloosa in 1861; Dr. James Guild, Jr., served as full 
Surgeon C. S. A., enlisted at Barrancas Barracks, May, 1861, and was 
with General Lee at the surrender at Appomattox, 1865; Lieutenant 
Walter Guild served throughout the war, enlisted May 12, 1861, at Bar¬ 
rancas Barracks, paroled May 31, 1865, at the mouth of the Red River. 

Mrs. Johnson sprang from a family of patriots, and for enthusiastic 
patriotism and zeal in keeping alive the memories of soldiers who 
fought in the American Wars she stands without a superior, and is 
devoting much time and energy to the gathering of information in 
regard to the wars of this county. 

She . is a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the 
founder of the John T. Morgan Chapter, U. D. C., Talladega, which she 
organized March 1, 1900, and was the first President, 1901-2. She is 
also the founder of the William H. Burr Auxiliary C. of C., which she 
organized in 1907. 

Mrs. Johnson is also a member of the Daughters of 1812, the Daugh¬ 
ters of the American Revolution, a Colonial Dame through the State 
of Virginia, and Chairman for Alabama of the Order of Descendants 
of Colonial Governors prior to 1750, member of Council of War 1699. 

Mrs. Johnson is a woman of charming personality and gracious 
dignity of manner, an ideal cultured gentlewoman. 




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SOME INTERESTING FACTS FROM MISS 
MILDRED RUTHERFORD. 

EXTRACT FROM THE STATE HISTORIAN’S ADDRESS AT 
GRIFFIN, GA., OCT., 1911. 

It has been the custom from time immemorial to rear monuments to 
honor great military leaders and also to erect buildings in memory of 
illustrious dead, but I have never found in the history of any nation 
where the brave of tne surrendered side has been so honored. In this 
the South is truly unique, for she has placed wreaths of immortelles 
on the graves of those who in the eyes of the world died under the 
banner of defeat. 

Nor have I found in the history of any nation where a private so 1 - 
dier has been as highly honored as a commanding officer. Here again 
the South is unique, for private and general have been equally honored. 
It is our own Confederate soldier who wears the Cross of Honor. It 
was not for the Union soldier that Memorial Day was inaugurated, but 
for our Confederate dead. It was to our Confederate women that the 
first monument to women in'the world was erected by our Veterans, 
and this monument stands at Rome, Ga., and a second at Macon, Ga. 

“Aid societies, no longer needed after the war ended, were converted 
into Ladies’ Memorial Associations, and then this memorial work be¬ 
gan. The early monuments were all erected by these Memorial Asso¬ 
ciations. After the Daughters of the Confederacy were organized in 
1896 then both organizations united in honoring the dead. 

The main w T ork of the Memorial Associations today is the caring 
for the graves and arranging the Memorial Day exercises uniting with 
the Daughters of the Confederacy in all lines of educational work. 
Tn many places they have reorganized as one body, and while they are 
one in spirit I have always thought they should remain separate in 
name. 

“Georgia has the first monument erected by the Children of the Con¬ 
federacy, a beautiful fountain erected at Gainesville to the husband 
of our Mrs. Sanders, so long faithful Treasurer of Georgia Division. 

“The United Daughters have with the Veterans erected the monu¬ 
ment to our President, Jefferson Davis, at the capital of the Confed¬ 
eracy, and Georgia nobly did her part, coming next to Virginia in sub¬ 
scriptions. There it stands as an object lesson to all future genera¬ 
tions of the high esteem in which he was held by us. We have also 
placed a monument to Winnie Davis in the cemetery at Richmond bv 
the.side of her father’s grave, to say nothing of that Memorial to the 
living which stands to her memory at Athens, Ga.—the finest work, I 
think, that the Georgia Division has ever done in memorial work. 

“I believe that not many years will elapse before there will be not 
only in every county but in every hamlet and town, where loyal South- 



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ern hearts reside, monuments to our Confederate dead. The delay in 
erecting them comes from no lack of interest, but irom a feeling that 
the duty to the living must come first. 

1 ‘ There is something unique in this war between the States. While 
we were overpowered we were never conquered. The same spirit that 
actuated us to resist oppression is in us today to hold fast to the truth 
for which we contended, and a very strange thing to relate is that 
the people of the North, yes, the children of the bitterest abolitionists 
are coming to acknowledge that we, not they, adhered to the consti¬ 
tution. 

‘ ‘ And while we adhere closely to the principles for which we fought, 
we can today fight a grander battle by putting out of our own hearts 
all the bitterness towards those who were contending for their rights. 

‘ ‘ As far as I have been able to learn, so far the credit of erecting 
the first monument to our Confederate dead belongs to Chefaw, S. C., 
June, 1867; Romney, W. Va., comes second, September 28, 1867; Tusca¬ 
loosa, Ala, 1868; Fayetteville, N. C., 1868. 

“The first monument in Georgia, and the fifth in the South, is the 
monument in Griffin erected in 1869. Lynchburg, Va., comes very near, 
but is a month later; Richmond, Va., 1869; Liberty, Miss., 1871; Athens, 
Ga., 1872; St. Augustine, Fla., 1872; Augusta Ga., 1873; Columbus, 
Miss., 1873; Atlanta, Ga., 1874, and Savannah, Ga., 1875. After this 
the monuments were erected very rapidly. Now it is considered quite a 
reflection if there is no monument in a Southern town to our dead 
heroes. 

‘ ‘ It will be interesting to know that the first monument to Unknown 
Dead was erected in Winchester, Va., 1881. This was in memory of 
829 soldiers gathered from the nearby battlefields. Would it not be 
interesting history if all the figures, not only connected with the num¬ 
ber of monuments in the South, but an approximate cost of same could 
be gathered? It does not seem impossible to secure anything like an 
accurate idea of this. 

“It is pathetic to know how some of the money for these monu¬ 
ments was raised. Few will ever know the heart-throbs and the end¬ 
less patience and untold discouragements that some of these brave 
women had to encounter. 

“I call to mind a little band of Daughters at Hinesville, Ga., num¬ 
bering, x think, only nine living miles apart, struggled to place twelve 
slabs over some scattered soldiers in their neighborhood. Four of 
these slabs were placed at Flemington, four in the Jones Creek ceme¬ 
tery, and the other four in the Taylor Creek cemetery. These slabs 
speak to me far more eloquently of patriotism and heroic devotion to 
our cause than do all the lofty structures we have reared. They truly 
represent sacrifice, hard labor and undying love. ” 


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MRS. AUGUSTA ELLIS MOORE. 

Augusta Ellis was born at Charleston, S. C., in 1838. She died at 
Atlanta, Ga., in 1907. 

Her father was William Drysdale Ellis of Oree District, S. C., and 
her mother Charlotte Isabelle McIntosh, of Charleston, S. C. On her 
father’s side she was descended from the Drysdales of Ireland, the Lees 
of Virginia, Ellis of England and Chestnutts of Carolina. On her ma¬ 
ternal side she came from the McIntosh and McNeil families of Scot¬ 
land, which settled in Carolina and Georgia in colonial times, and from 
the Dorrels of South Carolina. 

Her education began in the private schools of Charleston, S. C., and 
was completed at the Methodist College at Madison, Ga., and later 
under Madame Sosnowski, the wife of a Polish Count in political exile 
in South Carolina and Georgia. She had the graceful accomplishments 
of music, voice and piano, was a proficient French scholar, and her 
literary talents found successful expression in short stories and sketches. 

In March, 1885, she was married to Dr. Thomas Polk Moore of 
Charleston, immediately upon his graduation from the medical college 
of that city, and by the union bore three children, John Wheeler 
Moore, Clarence Ellis Moore, and Laura Isabelle (Lollie Belle) Moore. 

In March, 1859, Dr. Moore died at Camden, Arkansas, and Mrs. 
Moore returned to Georgia with her father, Mr. Ellis, and located at 
Athens, where she remained until about 1863, when her father moved 
the family to Augusta, where they remained until the Surrender. In 
1867 they removed to Atlanta, where Mrs.| Moore resided until her 
death. 

She was an un-reconstructed rebel, a true Daughter of the Confed¬ 
eracy, and was active in the Memorial Association work in Atlanta 
during and after the reconstruction period. 

Mrs. Moore’s voice had the melody and softness of the South and 
during the war she gave her services for concert work by which money 
was raised to supply hospitals and eepiipment for the Confederate army. 
Her father was a member of the Silver Guards (Home Guard), at Au¬ 
gusta, and her brother, Hayne Ellis, was under General John Morgan 
and was with him at the time of his betrayal into the hands of the 
Yankees by the enemy. 

She was one of the first eleven communicants of St. Philips Episco¬ 
pal Church (the Cathedral) at Atlanta, and for seven years was the 
leading contralto soloist in the choir of that church giving her services 
gratuitously. At the dedication of the new pipe organ, in St. Philips 
Church, the first in Atlanta, she was invited by General Meade, who 
was stationed in Atlanta and who was instrumental in buying the organ, 
to sing, which she did. 

She was filled with the spirit of human kindness, sympathy and love 
tor her fellow creatures. She was a devoted friend, sincere woman and 
an untiring mother. 








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MRS. LOLLIE BELLE WYLIE 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. LOLLIE BELLE WYLIE. 

Laura Isabelle Moore Wylie of Atlanta was born at Bayou Coq d’Inde, 
in Mobile County, Alabama, a romantic place settled by French people of 
a high intellectual type. She was cradled in the lair of Lafitte, the 
Gulf pirate, lulled by mysterious music on the Southern bayous, and 
nursed among the tumuli of the Pascagoula Indians who inhabited 
Coden at one time. 

Her father was Dr. Thomas Polk Moore and her mother, Augusta 
Ellis Moore, both of Charleston, S. C. She is descended from the two 
Governors, James Moore, first and second of Berkely County, Carolina, 
and Governor Sir John Yeamans, who settled Charleston. Among her 
ancestry also are numbered the Dorrels, Chestnutts, Ellises, Lees of 
Carolina and Virginia, and Drvesdales, of Ireland, the Neufvilles of 
France, and the Mclntoshes of Scotland. 

She was married in 1877 to Hart Wylie and widowed in 1887. Two 
daughters were born of this union: Augusta Wylie, now Mrs. Charles 
Preston King, and Hart Wylie, now Mrs. Edward Inglis Smith, Jr., of 
Athens Ga. She has three grand-daughters: Charlotte King, Laura 
Isabelle Smith and Hart Wylie Smith. 

Mrs. Wylie began her literary career under the guidance of Senator 
Hoke Smith, when she was put at the head of the Atlanta Journal So¬ 
ciety Department. She was the first woman to hold a regular repor- 
torial position on a daily paper in Georgia. She assisted in organizing 
the Woman’s Press Club of Georgia, which entertained the Interna¬ 
tional League of Press Clubs in Atlanta. She was one of two women 
in Georgia given a ‘‘special day” at the Cotton States and Interna¬ 
tional Exposition and a program of her writings and music was given 
and her portrait hung in the Woman’s Building. Her poems have been 
translated in foreign publications and copied in the leading Buddhist 
magazine in India. They have been compared bv competent critics to 
the poems of Heine, Herrick and Swinburne. She has written a play, 
“The Golden Goose,” which has been successfully produced, and her 
stories have appeared in high class magazines. 

Mrs. Wylie is President of the Atlanta Writers’ Club and she also 
holds official position in the Stone Mountain Monumental Association, 
the Uncle Remus Memorial Association, The Atlanta Woman’s Pioneer 
Society, the Atlanta Chapter U. D. C., Atlanta Chapter D. A. R., and 
is a charter member of the Colonial Daughters. At the age of fifteen 
she was an active member of the Beethoven Society, a musical organiza¬ 
tion of a high order. 

By the consecration of her life to the highest literary ideals she 
has made for herself a name in literature that will radiate through the 
coming years a memory and a melody as sweet as the music of the 
mysterious Southern bayous that lulled her childish heart to sleep. 



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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. JAMES HENRY PARKER. 

It should be an inspiration to those who love the work of the 
Daughters of the Confederacy to know that in the great metropolitan 
and cosmopolitan city of New York, with its teeming population and 
its tumultuously busy life, the task of keeping alive the memorials of 
the Confederacy is not forgotten. Among those whom business or pleas¬ 
ure or social ties have drawn into the swift current of metropolitan 
life are some who come from among the best representatives of South¬ 
ern life and who have not left behind their interest in the traditions 
and the principles of the old South. 

Foremost among these loyal upholders of Southern sentiment and 
memories is Mrs. James Henry Parker. It is due to her efforts and 
to her influence that there are U. D. C. chapters in New York City and 
that there is a State organization in New York State. 

Julia Augusta Jewell was born in Charleston, S. C. Thus it was 
that she spent her earliest years in the very heart of the ideals and 
traditions that gave its characteristic features to the civilization of 
the old South. On her marriage to Dr. James Henry Parker she moved 
to New York City, where she has since made her home. She was a 
charter member of the New York Chapter of the U. D. C., which was 
founded March 17, 1997. Four years later she was elected President 
of the chapter and has held the office ever since, thus making nine¬ 
teen continuous years of service. 

In June, 1916, Mrs. Parker founded a second chapter in New York 
City, which was named in honor of her husband, the “ James Henry 
Parker Chapter.” In October of the same year she organized the 
New York Division of the U. D. C., and was elected President. She 
held this position for two years, when she resigned and was elected 
Honorary President. 

Mrs. Parker has always been active in the work of the U. D. C., 
giving liberally of both her time and her means for the furtherance of 
the cause. She is also a Daughter of the American Revolution, a Colo¬ 
nial Dame and a member of the Order of the Crown. Her interest in the 
work and her highly effective service in its promotion have given her 
a distinguished place in the regard of the Daughters of the Confederacy 
everywhere. 




WALTER MATTHEWS 


MRS 



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MRS. WALTER MATTHEWS. 

Mrs. Josie Mae Turner is one of the most distinguished of the gifted 
Daughters of the Confederacy who have reflected honor upon the South 
and its traditions and helped to keep these glorious traditions alive. 
She was a daughter of Janies Polk Turner and was born in Carroll 
County, Ivy. Her mother’s maiden name was Lena Elstow. 

Mrs. Matthews is of illustrious lineage. On the maternal side of 
the ancestral line she is descended from the Haydens and Ballards, 
who were among the most representative families of old Virginia, and 
were also among the pioneers in opening up Kentucky to civilization. 
On the paternal side she comes from the Turner and Maddox families 
who came to St. Mary’s County, Maryland, early in the seventeenth 
century, and from the Travis and Brock families of James City, Va. 
Through the last named family she traces her line back to Sir Francis 
Mason, jvho settled at Jamestown in 1613. 

She is a member of the Kentucky Historical Society, U. D. S. D., 1812, 
of the Daughters of the Confederacy and of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution. She is also a member of the “First Families 
of Virginia,” in recognition of her descent from the ancestor already 
named, whose settlement at Jamestown antedated the landing of the 
Mayflower at Plymouth Rock by seven years. 

She is State Historian for the Kentucky Division of the Daughters 
of the Confederacy, 1918-1919. Her interest in historical studies has 
indeed given the bent to her labors in behalf of the South, and for the 
past two years all of her time has been given to historical work. This 
has been especially directed towards securing true histories in the 
schools throughout the State, histories which will present justly and 
truthfully the worthy part which the South has played in the building 
of our nation. She has accomplished much in this direction. She is 
also State Director, charged with the task of collecting books dealing 
with Southern life and history for the Bodleian Library in England. 
She was matron of honor for Kentucky at the Confederate reunion in 
Atlanta in 1919. 




MRS. ALEXANDER B. WHITE 


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MRS. ALEXANDER B. WHITE. 

(Rassie Hoskins White) 

Mrs. Alexander B. White, eleventh President General, U. D. C., 
A T as born in Lexington, Mississippi, the daughter of Captain E. Hoskins 
and Lou Pinkston Hoskins. Captain Hoskins early joined the Con¬ 
federate Army, Company A of the celebrated Thirty-eight Regiment 
of Mississippi Volunteers, serving principally in Mississippi battles 
and the siege of Vicksburg. After the fall of Vicksburg he was in 
Forrest’s Cavalry and was discharged with General Forrest in 1865. 
Mrs. Hoskins knitted socks, scraped bandages and furnished her own 
slaves to work on the fortifications of Vicksburg. After the death 
of her husband Mrs. Hoskins moved to Meridian, Mississippi, where 
in 1890 her daughter, Rassie, was married to Alexander B. White, a 
banker and philanthropist of Paris, Tennessee. 

Mrs. White, with an A. B. degree, was interested in club work; 
founded the Fortnightly Club of which she was President; a member 
of the Sans Souci and Woman’s Clubs and the I). A. R. She became 
deeply interested in the Daughters of the Confederacy, was the first 
delegate the Fifth Tennessee Regiment Chapter of Paris sent to a 
convention; became Chapter President, Second Vice President of the 
Tennessee Division and in 1905-1907 was President of the Division, 
when twenty-three chapters were organized, a constitution adopted, aud 
organization of children’s auxiliaries begun. She took a prominent 
part in the general organization, serving as chairman of Committee 
on Recommendations, Finance and Revision of Constitution. In San 
Francisco in 1905 the U. D. C. convention voted her $500.00 for the 
Sam Davis monument at Nashville, Tennessee, and at her request 
decided to erect a monument on Shiloh battlefield. 

The Shiloh Monument Committee was appointed with a Director 
in thirty-two States with Mrs. White director for Tennessee and Di¬ 
rector General, positions she held until the completion of the work in 
1918. 

In Richmond in 1911 she was elected President General (Virginia 
nominating her) thus holding at the same time the two highest posi¬ 
tions in the U. D. C., President General and Director General. 

The organization grew and excellent work was done in all depart¬ 
ments out the long and serious illness of Mr. White permitted Mrs. 
White to direct it only by correspondence and prevented her attend¬ 
ing her convention in Washington in November, 1912', but though ab¬ 
sent, she was re-elected President General by acclamation. 

In December death claimed her beloved husband, who had been so 
interested and so helpful in her U. D. C. work, but she courageously 
continued her work and pushed collecting funds for Shiloh with an 
educational campaign in the Newton (N. C.) Enterprise and at Paris 



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a calendar sale that netted $1,500.00. The $50,000.00 fund progressed 
so satisfactorily that in 1914 the design “Victory Defeated by Death” 
of Frederick C. Hibbard of Chicago was selected, the contract calling 
for completion and erection in two years. 

On May 17, 1917, in the presence of fifteen thousand people, the 
unveiling of the beautiful monument was one of the most important 
and impressive occasions ever held in the South, and the program ar¬ 
ranged by Mrs. White was brilliant. In the flag draped pavilion, Con¬ 
gressman Candler of Mississippi, master of ceremonies; Gov. Tom C. 
Rye of Tennessee, delivered the address of welcome; Mrs. White in a 
presentation address gave the monument to the U. D. C. through the 
President General, Mrs. Frank G. Odenheimer, who presented it to 
Superintendent De Long Rice for the War Department. Bishop Thomas 
F. Gailor of Tennessee, one of the great orators of America, made the 
chief address. 

Then came the inspiring march of a mile to the monument with 
the Adjutant-General of Tennessee and two aides in uniform on horse¬ 
back leading; young men bearing an American and two Confederate 
flags; Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls with flags; ushers and two hundred 
decorated automobiles, and the band of thirty-six pieces playing stir¬ 
ring martial music. 

At the monument the bugler sounded “The Assembly,” Miss Mil¬ 
dred White, appointed by the President-General, pulled the golden 
cord and unveiled the beautiful, impressive monument amidst wild 
enthusiasm. 

After paying all expenses, the first time a monument was ever 
fully paid for at time of unveiling, the balance of $750.00 was used 
for a handsome granite boulder at the longest trench of Confederate 
dead and dedicated May 17, 1918, the first anniversary of the un¬ 
veiling of the monument. Thus the Shiloh Committee, one of the 
strongest committees the U. D. C. has ever had in personnel and re¬ 
markable harmony and devotion to their work, had completed their 
great undertaking. 

During Mrs. White’s administration, consideration of Southern 
literature was inaugurated and she recommended naming an ocean to 
ocean mghway, the Jefferson Davis Highway. In 1918 she was chair¬ 
man of Commitee on Constitution for Children’s Auxiliaries and edi¬ 
tor of the U. D. C. Department of the Confederate Veteran for 1919 
She still responds to all calls of the U. D. C. and Confederate Veterans, 
for her devotion to the cause is undiminished. 




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Honor Roll of the War Mothers of 1 861 


Whom Mrs. A. McD. Wilson has presented with the “Bar of Gold” 
which has engraved thereon, C. S. M. A. 


Mrs. M. E. Bailey_ 

Mrs. Mary Louisa Hardin__ 

Mrs. Emaline C. Martin__ 

Mrs. Adeline Gillespie Felmet_ 

Mrs. Matilda Hardin Holmes_ 

Mrs. Sallie K. Jamison_ 

Mrs. Sarah Jane Harden_ 

Mrs. E. I. Harvey__ 

Mrs. Birdie M. White_ 

Mrs. Olivia Posser_ 

Mrs. Mary C. Soloman_ 

Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson- 

Mrs. Easter Hodgens___ 

Mrs. Eurethia Harvey_ 

Mrs. Nancy Hendlev Hargrove_ 

Mrs. Sarah Hemphill (age 105 years)_ 

Mrs. Rebecca Howard (age 101 years)- 

Mrs. Ruth Porter Watson (age 104 J 4 years) 
Mrs. Amanda Sims Boswe'l (age 108 years)_ 

Mrs. George Mather_ 

Mrs. Sarah Gordon_ 

Mrs. Mary Stamps_ 

Mrs. Elizabeth Summers_ 

Mrs. Orleva Sharp_ 

Mrs. Virginia Everett Riekett_ 

Mrs. Evaline D. Williams Dasher_ 

Mrs. Mary E. Barrow_ 

Mrs. Adeline Meacham_ 

Mrs. Minnie Stephens_ 

Mrs. Martha Zellner_ 

Mrs. Sarah Fowler_ 

Mrs. Ruth Porter Watson_ 

Mrs. Almira Sea well_ 

Mrs. Julian F. Rowland_ 


_LaGrange, Ga. 

_Homer, Ga. 

-Mount Juliet, Tenn. 

-Asheville, N. C. 

_Barnesville, Ga. 

—iRussellville, Ark. 

_Franklin, Ga, 

_Mathison, Miss. 

-Wedwell, A’a. 

_Orangeburg, S. C. 

-Clearwater, Miss. 

_Naylor, Ga. 

-Greenville, S. C. 

_Wedowee, Ala. 

_Eastman, Ga. 

_Athens, Ga. 

_Lowndes, Ala. 

_North Carolina 

_Brookhaven, Miss. 

_New Orleans, La. 

-Stathain, Ga. 

_Comersville, Tenn. 

.._Newnan, Ga. 

_Vicksburg, Miss. 

-Huntington, W. Va. 

_Sylvania, Ga. 

_New Orleans, La. 

_Burlington, N. C. 

_Ybor City, Fla. 

_Arlington, Tenn. 

_Dallas, Tex. 

Rutherfordton, N. C. 

_Norman, Okla. 

_Benton, Ark. 


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MRS: FRANK HARROLD 

Students of history know that from the “red old hills” of Walton 
County have come many of the men and women who have made Georgia 
illustrious. 

The Walkers have lived there since Colonial days, and none have 
done more than they in the development and upbuilding of their county, 
State and country. 

From such people and such environment came Allene Walker Harrold, 
and combining the beauty and strength of character of her ancestors 
with the breadth of knowledge of the modern women, she is doing her 
part in making Georgia history. 

She was born on October 9, 1875, in Monroe, Georgia. She is the 
eldest daughter of Billington Sanders Walker and Alice Mitchell. She 
was educated in Monroe public schools and the Lucy Cobb Institute, 
graduating there with first honor in the class of 1893. As a school 
girl she showed her ability as a leader and always stood for the right. 

She married Frank P. Harrold in Americus, Georgia, April 27, 1898. 
They have two children, Frank Walker and Mary Alice. These parents 
have instilled into their children in a marked degree those qualities 
which go to make good and loyal citizens of their country. 

Their son won the Rhodes Scholarship from the University of Georgia 
for 1920. 

Mrs. Harrold came to Americus with the undaunted spirit of old 
Walton County, and entered at once into all work for the good of the 
community; but the work which has ever been nearest her heart is 
that in the Daughters of the Confederacy. She has put her best efforts 
there and has reaped a rich reward. For four years she was President 
of the local Chapter and during her regime the Chapter doubled its 
membership and its usefulness. 

She was State Chairman of the Programme Committee, Second Vice- 
President of the Georgia Division for four years, and in October, 1919, 
was elected President of the Georgia Division, United Daughters of the 
Confederacy. Mrs. Harrold’s popularity was shown by her having no 
opposition for this office, and few Presidents of this Division have 
ever been given such warm-hearted co-operation throughout the State 
in all work undertaken. 

One of the most beautiful phases of Mrs. Harrold’s U. D. C. work 
is the devotion of the old veterans to her; she has made each feel that 
she is his personal friend. 

During the World War she was County Chairman of the Woman’s 
Committee for three Liberty Loan drives, and was one of the food 
administrators. 

Those who know and love Mrs. Harrold best are those who know 
her in her own charming home. Many lonely soldier boys gathered 
from all over the country at Souther Field, near Americus, during the 
great war, were welcomed into this home and none knew better than 
they the full meaning of this warm hearted hospitality. 












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MRS. PAUL B. TRAMMELL. 

Mrs. Paul B. Trammell, one of the leading women of Georgia, re¬ 
sides in the historic old town of Dalton, which is associated with some 
of the most stirring events of the War Between the States. She is a 
daughter of Dr. J. R. McAfee, a prominent physician of Dalton, who 
served with distinction as Surgeon in the Thirty-sixth Georgia Regi¬ 
ment during the Sixties. 

Mrs. Trammell is a member of the Bryan M .Thomas Chapter of 
the U. D. C. of Dalton. She has served for several terms as President 
and Vice-President of this progressive Chapter. It was during her term 
of office as President that this Chapter placed a marble headstone at 

the grave of every soldier buried in the Confederate Cemetery at Dalton. 

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There are more than four hundred of the heroes of the Confederacy 
buried in the cemetery, and the honor paid to their last resting place 
was a beautiful service on the part of the Dalton U. D. C. under the able 
leadership of Mrs. Trammell. This Chapter also rendered a magnifi¬ 
cent service and made a contribution to the historical riches of the 
South in the erection of a monument to General Joseph E. Johnstone at 
Dalton. 

Mrs. Trammell is deeply interested in all progressive movements. 
She has been many times Regent of the Governor John Milledge Chap¬ 
ter D. A. R., and is now (1920) still filling that office. She is also a 
prominent leader in club and church work. 






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MRS. R, PHILIP HOLT. 

Mrs. Holt, while one of the younger Daughters of the Confederacy, 
has by her executive ability, forethought and vigilance, accomplished 
more than many who have lived the allotted three score years and ten. 

Mrs. Richard Philip Holt, whose maiden name was Tempe Battle 
Whitehead, was born in Battleboro, N. C., February 17th, 1883. Her 
father, Dr. W. H. Whitehead, was an eminent physician, and her mother, 
Bettie Marriott Whitehead, a type of the gentle high bred Southern 
woman. 

Mrs. Holt was educated at Notre Dame, Baltimore, Md., and Greens¬ 
boro Woman’s College. From her early chi’dhood she showed great 
love and interest in everything pertaining to the Confederacy. This 
feeling was no doubt fostered by intimate association with her ma¬ 
ternal grandmother, Mrs. T. A. Marriott, and her paternal grand¬ 
father, Capt. A. J. M. Whitehead, Company I, 17th Regiment, N. C. T. 
She had several great uncles who were brave soldiers, so it is little 
wonder that with the organization of the Bethel Heroes chapter, U. 
D. C. in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, where she resides, she should 
enter into the work with the zeal and enthusiasm of her loyal, in¬ 
tense nature. 

A brief summary of her w r ork will suffice to show what she lias 
accomplished, and will win for her an enduring place in the annals of 
the Daughters of the Confederacy. 

In ner home chapter she has been Corresponding Secretary, His¬ 
torian, President and Treasurer. During her administration as Presi¬ 
dent of the chapter the handsome monument to the Confederate sol¬ 
diers of Nash County was unveiled. 

She has held the following offices in the North Carolina Division: 
Director of Children of the Confederacy; Director of War Relief Work; 
Director of War Records; also of Women of the Sixties. She has 
served on many important committees, both in State and general work. 
She is now Third Vice-President General, having been elected to this 
office by the General Division at the Tampa convention, November, 
1919. It is a deserved honor worthily bestowed for her work with the 
Children of the Confederacy is a record of which she may be justly 
proud. 

She organized the Children’s Chapter in Rocky Mount, N. C., the 
Junior Bethel Heroes Chapter No. 24, C. of (’., N. C. Division and has 
been their leader eight years. Under her wise leadership this chapter 
has won the State (William Watson) Banner three times and the Gen¬ 
eral (R. H. Ricks) Banner twice. This last banner was given the 
General Division by this little chapter. During the World War this 
chapter made six hundred dollars and kept a bed in the Neuillv Hos¬ 
pital, France, in honor ot the boys from Nash and Edgecombe Coun¬ 
ties. They are also supporting two French orphans. 




THE JUNIOR BETHEL HEROES’ CHAPTER. CHILDREN OF THE CONFEDERACY, 

NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION (ROCKY' MOUNT.) 






REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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THE REPORT OF THE JUNIOR BETHEL HEROES’ 

CHAPTER 1914-1915. 

REPRESENTATIVE CHAPTER OF NORTH CAROLINA. 

The Junior Bethel Heroes Chapter has on roll forty-two members, of 
which twenty-four are new this year. Each one has, this year, been 
given a certificate. 

We have regular monthly meetings at the homes of our members, 
at which times we have faithfully carried out the program sent out 
by our Historian General. 

We have learned the Confederate Catechism and recite it every 
two months, have also recited many Confederate recitations and sung 
the songs of ’61 and ’65. 

During the year the following papers have been written and read 
at our meetings: 

The lives of Generals Hil 1 , Cox, Roberts, Pender, Hoke, Robt. Ran¬ 
som, Matt Ransom, George B. Anderson, Branch, Thomas L. Clingman, 
James Pettigrew, Stephen Ramseur and also of Bryan Grimes, Leonidas 
Polk, Gov. Z. D. Vance, George Davis, Sidney Lanier, Dr. Ticknor, 
besides the lives of many of our veterans. 

One member told us in a very interesting paper what it means to 
be a member of the U. D. C., another the origin of the Cross of Honor 
and Memorial Day, also the history of the Ku Klux Klan. 

We have sent in all fifteen papers to our State Historian. 

Louise Toler, one of our members, received the prize given by our 
Mother Chapter for the best essay by a high school pupil on “The Jus¬ 
tification of the South in Seceding.” 

We aided our Mother Chapter in celebrating Lee-Jackson Day, Me¬ 
morial and Jefferson Davis Birthday. 

On Memorial Day we made twenty wreaths for the graves of our 
heroes of ’61 to ’65 and also carried flowers. We went in a body to 
the grave of Mrs. James W. Hines, the late President of our Mother- 
Chapter, and placed a wreath of ivy and bouquets of flowers on the 
mound above her. 

We have, this year, made sixty-three visits to veterans and their 
widows. 

Have sent wreaths to ten of our heroes who have answered the last 
roll call—sent a wreath when Governor Jarvis died and also when Mrs. 
Jackson died—a telegram of sympathy to General Carr. 

Flowers were sent to one of our members when her father died. 

The gifts made by us mean much, for we have worked hard to be 
able to answer every call for aid. 

The following are the causes we have aided and amounts paid: 

Ribbon for wreaths -$ 3.2-^ 

Flowers and fruit for sick veterans-- 5.00 






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A needy Captain of Manly’s Battery who lives in an adjoining 

town - 30.00 

A suit of clothes for a veteran who was hurt- 12.00 

At Christinas to a veteran’s widow - 2.50 

Christmas and Easter cards were written to one hundred and fifty 
veterans of Nash and Edgecombe Counties to bring them 

cheer by telling them of our love - 6.00 

Underwear for a veteran- 4.00 

In January one of our members found a widow of a veteran on 
her way from Virginia to Wake County with her husband’s 
oody for burial. On investigation we found she was in 
need, so we took care of her two small grandchildren and 

gave her in money _ 5.00 

For furnishing Wives and Widows’ Home- 2.50 

For Victrola at Soldiers’ Home - 1.00 

To a veteran to pay his hospital expenses when his eye was 

operated on in Richmond _ 10.00 

Sent five of our heroes of ’61-’65 to Richmond to again renew 

the friendships of long ago - 15.00 

Have given three suits of clothes to veterans costing together. 45.00 

To a sick veteran a book of ice tickets_ 5.00 

Stationery for historical papers - 1.26 

Educational fund _ 1.00 

North Carolina Room in Richmond _ 1 00 

Shiloh Monument _ .50 

Arlington Monument _ .50 

Trader fund _ v _ .25 

Jefferson Davis Memorial fund _ .2'6 

Gettysburg monument _ 20.25 

Mrs. Parsley’s picture for Wives and Widows Home_ 1.00 

Ten pictures for our county schools _ 25.00 

Cunningham memorial _ 1.00 

Surgeon’s monument _ 1.00 

Red Cross window, Washington, D. C. _ 1.00 

Our monument - 25.00 

In bank - 22.80 

Postage - 1.95 

Total for year _ 250.00 

MRS. R. P. HOLT, Leader. MARY RUTH DIVINE, President. 

WILLIE ODOM, Secretary. 








































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Born in Warren County, North Carolina, 
DECEMBER 18, 1827. 

Member of Company “H,” 1st N. C. Regiment of Volunteers. 

War With Mexico 1847. 

Captain in U. S. Army in Utah, 1858, 
under Albert Sidney Johnson. 

Member of Company “B,” 2nd N. C. Battalion C. S. A. 

Later Major in Commissary Department, 
with headquarters at Marion, S. C. 

Designer of “The Stars and Bars,” which was adopted by the 
Confederate States, Congress, March 4, 1861. 

Died at Henderson, N. C., March 3, 1913. 


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MAJOR SMITH’S OWN STORY. 

When the Senators and Representatives of the seven Confederate 
States that had seceded February 1, 1861, met at Montgomery, Ala., the 
first business after organizing was to decide whether the new nation 
should have a new flag and new Constitution or fight under the 
Constitution of the United States. The debate was short; both sides 
had strong arguments to offer. A new Constitution, composed of na¬ 
tive white citizens, was adopted, and a committee was appointed to 
select a new flag. This committee advertised in the leading papers 
for designs of flags, to be sent to them at Montgomery. One of these 
went from Louisburg, N. C., where there was Jiving a man, an original 
secessionist, who so hoped that the Confederacy would adopt a new 
flag and a new Constitution that he was ready with a design when the 
advertisement of “Flag Wanted” appeared. When this man, Orren 
Randolph Smith, was introduced by Gen. Julian S. Carr, commander- 
in-chief of the U. C. V. of North Carolina, at their reunion in Norfolk, 
September, 1910, he told the story of his flag in the following words. 

“Three times have I been a soldier at my country’s call, twice 
fighting under the Stars and Stripes and once under the ‘Stars and 
Bars.’ While with Taylor; south of the Rio Grande, a unit in that 
proud army that never let an enemy touch our flag; in Utah with Al¬ 
bert Sidney Johnson, 1857-1858, I learned what the flag meant to the 
men who were willing to give their lives for ‘Old Glory’ every day and 
every hour in the day. A soldier’s flag must be his inspiration. It 
stands for home, kindred and country; it must be something more than 
a piece of bunting or the blending of bright colors. 

“When at Sumter, that shot was fired that was heard around the 
world, I realized that a new country had been made and that the new 
nation must have a new flag, of the deepest, truest significance, to 
lead the ‘Men in Gray’ against the greatest odds and through the 
greatest difficulties that any soldiers have ever overcome since the 
world was made. The idea of my flag I took from the Trinity, “Three 
in One.” The three bars were for the Church, State and Press. Red 
represented State, legislative, judiciary and executive; white for Church, 
Father, Son and Holy Ghost; red for press, freedom of speech, free¬ 
dom of conscience ana liberty of press—all bound together by a field 
of blue (the heavens over all), bearing a Star for each State in the 
( onfederation. The seven white stars, all the same size, were placed 
in a circle, showing that each State had equal rights and privileges ir¬ 
respective of size or population. The circle, having neither head nor 
foot, stood for eternity, and signified ‘You defend me and I’ll protect 
you. I had the flag all complete in my mind before the Confederate 
Congress advertised for models, and when the advertisement appeared 
I went to my friend, Miss Rebecca Murphy( she is now Mrs. W. B. 
M inborne, of Wilson, N. C.), and asked if she would make me a little 














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flag; I’d tell her how. I tore the ‘Bars and cut the Stars’ and she 
sewed the stitches and when finished the little flag was sent to Mont¬ 
gomery, with the suggestion that a star be added for each State that 
joined the Confederacy. The flag committee, as you all know, ac¬ 
cepted the flag and named it ‘The Stars and Bars.’ They also adopted 
the suggestion, and it was not long before the flag bore eleven stars 
for the eleven Confederate States that voted for Jefferson Davis to 
be President. After the small flag was sent to Montgomery I bought 
dress goods from Barrow’s store and asked Miss Rebecca to make me 
a large flag, 9x12 feet, for whether the flag committee accepted my 
model or not I was determined that one of my flags should be floating 
in the breeze. Splicing two tall saplings together, I made a pole one 
hundred feet high and planted it on the courthouse square at Louis- 
burg, N. C. (where I was then living), and the flag was sent aloft on 
Monday, March 18, 1861, two months before North Carolina seceded. 
Over the flag was floating a long blue streamer, like an admiral has 
on his snip when ‘homeward bound,’ and on this pennant I had stars 
for each State that had seceded and one for North Carolina, for though 
my State was still in the Union I knew she was ‘homeward bound.’ 
This was the first Confederate flag ever raised in the Old North State, 
and this is how the ‘Stars and Bars’ came into existence, ‘Dixie’s 
Flag’ that floated over the bravest and hardest to wear out soldiers 
ever encountered in any war. ’ ’ 

Miss Murphy, who made the two flags, married first Dr. Germain 
Watson, and secondly W. B. Winborne. Her sister, Miss Sally Ann, 
refused to sew on the flag, saying she was “for the Union” and 
meant to marry a Yankee officer, and she did marry James A. Miller, 
Lieutenant U. S. A. But while Mr. Smith and Miss Rebecca made 
the flags, Miss Sallie Ann played on the piano and sang Southern songs. 
In 1904 Mrs. Winborne was living at Pine Tops, N. C., and she ap¬ 
peared before W. L. Dunn, a justice of the peace (he was also post¬ 
master), and made affidavit to the making of the Confederate model 
and the large flag that was displayed in Louisburg. 

She is living today with her daughter, Mrs. H. T. Webb, on South 
Tarboro street, Wilson, N. C., and has become a member of the United 
Daughters of the Confederacy, for Mr. Smith said he wanted her to 
have a U. D. C. badge as it was “The Stars and Bars.” 


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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OE THE SOUTH. 


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THE ORREN RANDOLPH SMITH CHAPTER, 
CHILDREN OF THE CONFEDERACY. 

MRS. MAURICE J. O’NEIL, DIRECTOR. 


The Orren Randolph Smith Chapter, Children of the Confederacy, 
was organized in Henderson, N. C., July 31, 1912, with Mrs. Maurice 
J. O’Neil, leader, and fifty-five charter members. 

The Chapter was named for Major Orren Randolph Smith, a member 
of a camp of Confederate Veterans, Veteran of three wars, designer of 
the first Confederate Flag, “The Stars and Bars.” Major Smith ex¬ 
pressed his appreciation of this honor by the gift to the Chapter of a 
handsome reproduction of the original flag. In less than a year he 
“passed over the river,” and the Children of the Confederacy placed 
the beloved flag about his body as he lay at rest. 

The following is a copy of the letter Major Smith wrote the Chap¬ 
ter as soon as he was informed of the selection of the name: 

“It is with a proud and glad spirit that I thank you, the young 
children of our land, for naming your Chapter for me, one of the Men 
in Gray. You have paid me the highest honor in your power, a distinc¬ 
tion of which I am justly proud. 

“For your work I suggest that you dedicate monument^, lay corner 
stones, study the history of our Southland, keep true the history of 
our War for State’s Rights, give honor where honor is due. I am with 
you in spirit and in thought. Make happy all the old soldiers who 
cross your path. But for their willingness to die for Dixie you today 
would not have the honor to be Children of the Confederacy.” 

Such good advice has been, in outline, the work of the Chapter, the 
children looking after the grave of Major Smith throughout the year, 
as well as Memorial Day. 

In October, 1915, the Chapter presented an oil painting, life size, 
of Major Smith to the North Carolina Division of the U. D. C., which 
now hangs in Memorial Hall, Richmond, Va, 

During the war, Annie, the daughter of General Robert E. Lee, was 
buried near Henderson, N. C., and her grave was properly marked with 
a monument. A handsome oil painting of this spot was given by the 
Chapter to our State Division, being presented by one of the younger 
members, who also unveiled the Confederate Monument erected by the 
Vance County Chapter U. D. C. in Henderson, N. C. 

This Chapter has held the State banner, an honor which goes yearly 
to the Children’s Chapter raising most funds for Confederate Veterans 
and is most proficient in the Confederate Catechism. This Chapter has 
recently contributed generously to the fund for the monument to be 
erected at Wilson, N. C., to Mrs. Winborne—the “Betsy Ross” of the 
Confederacy. 






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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. LUCIAN L. KNIGHT. 

Mrs. Rosa Talbot Knight, wife of Georgia’s State Historian, was 
born in Wilkes County, Ga., November 2, 1874, and was a daughter 
of Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Reid) Tal¬ 
bot. On both sides of the house she comes of distinguished stock and 
is identified with the oldest aristocracy of Georgia. Her father was a 
lawyer of great promise, but relinquishing his profession he enlisted 
in the Confederate Army, at the very beginning of hostilities, and 
served until the surrender, participating in many of the important bat¬ 
tles of the war. Colonel Talbot was on the staff of his kinsman, Major 
General Wm. H. T. Walker, and when 'the latter fell in the sanguinary 
engagement of July 22, 1864, near Atlanta, he carried the great sol¬ 
dier’s body to Augusta, for interment at the old arsenal. On the ma¬ 
ternal side, Mrs. Knight is descended from the well-known Reid family 
of Putnam County, Ga. Her mother, Mary Elizabeth Reid, was a 
noted beauty of the sixties, and in brilliancy of intellect was scarcely 
inferior to the celebrated Madame LeVert to whom she was closely 
related. For generations the ancestors of Mrs. Knight have been pa¬ 
triots and besides serving in every branch of the State and municipal 
government have distinguished themselves in all the wars of the nation. 

The Talbot family, according to Burke’s Peerage, is one of the old¬ 
est families of England. Mrs. Knight is lineally descended from John 
Talbot, the first Earl of Shrewsbury, but the origin of the family dates 
back to the Norman Conquest. Charles Talbot, Baron of Hensol, was 
Lord High Chancellor of England when the Colony of Georgia was 
founded, and to him was made officially an exhibit of all moneys and 
effects received and expended by the Trustees. The American branch 
of the family was first established in Virginia soon after the settle¬ 
ment at Jamestown. John Talbot, the first of the family to settle in 
Georgia, was for twenty-five • years a member of the House of Bur¬ 
gesses; and after coming to Georgia was a judge, a member of the State 
Legislature and a member of the convention which framed the State 
constitution of 1789. He was at this time the largest individual land- 
owner in the State of Georgia and was the owner in fee simple of 
50,000 acres of land in what is now the County of Wilkes. His son, 
Matthew Talbot, became Governor of Georgia. 

Mrs. Knight spent her girlhood days in Eatonton, at the home of 
her grandfather, Colonel Sidney Reid. This handsome old residence still 
survives, one of the finest types in existence of the stately Southern 
mansion of the ante-bellum days. Mrs. Knight received her education 
in the public schools of Eatonton, at Wesleyan Female College and at 
the New England Conservatory of Music. She married first, Hr. Ed¬ 
mund Hunter Reid, of Eatonton. In 1917 she became the wife of Dr. 
Lucian Lamar Knight, State Historian of Georgia. She is a Colonial 
Daughter, a Daughter of the Confederacy and a Daughter of the Amer¬ 
ican Revolution. In the last named organization she is now Vice-Regent 
of the Atlanta Chapter, and she is also Historian of the Atlanta Chap¬ 
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MRS. ZEBULON WALKER. 

Mrs. Mary Ford Walker was reared m Macon, Ga., and was the 
only daughter of Dr. William Wesley Ford and Mrs. Felicia Angela 
Butt Ford. 

Her father served for four years in tlie hospitals around Richmond 
during the War between the States, as a Surgeon of the Fourth Georgia 
Regiment. Her mother was a charter member of the Woman’s Memorial 
Association, and frequently visited the soldiers at Andersonville. 

Miss Mary Ford was a graduate of Wesleyan College at Macon, 
with the degree of A. B. After her marriage to Mr. Zebulon Walker 
and her removal to Canton, Ga., she organized the Helen Plane Chapter 
U. I). C. She has served for much of the time since as President of 
this chapter. 

For four years she was Chairman of the State Text Books Com¬ 
mittee and was instrumental in having all Southern histories put into 
the public schools of Georgia. She served two terms as Second Vice- 
President and three terms as Auditor of the Georgia Division. Thus 
she has been a State Officer for nine years and has missed but one 
State convention in that time. 

During the World War Mrs. Walker served as Chairman of the 
Council of National Defense for Cherokee County, as Chairman of the 
Cherokee County Red Cross Chapter and also as Director of Woman’s 
Work for Cherokee County in the United War Work Campaign, in which 
the Town of Canton was the first to raise its quota. 

Mrs. Walker has a son now with the American Army of Occupation 
in Germany. This she regards as her greatest service to her country,, 
the giving of her only son to the cause. 















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MRS. W. P. COBB. 

The subject of this sketch, Mrs. Addie Davis Cobb, the youngest 
daughter of John Jett Davis and Adeline Hall Davis, was born in 
Appling County, Ga., February 12th, 1881. At an early age she went 
to McRae, Ga., where she attended the South Georgia College, later 
entering the Georgia Normal and Industrial College at Milledgeville. 

Mrs. Cobb came of Confederate parentage, her father having seen 
active service through all four years of the war. He left school at the 
first call for volunteers and completed his education after the close 
of the war. While in service he was wounded, though not seriously. 

Her mother was married twice, first to Captain Middleton Graham 
of the Confederate army and after his death to John J. Davis. 

She was one of the foremost women in helping the Confederacy. 
She, with other women of her community, made the uniforms for one 
entire company, the “Appling Grays ,” organized and commanded by 
Capt. O. A. Lee, an uncle-in-law of Mrs. Cobb. 

After the surrender at Appomattox, when President Davis and Gen¬ 
eral John C. Breckenridge were trying to make their way across Geor¬ 
gia to Alabama, it was Mrs. Cobb’s grandfather, Mr. Seaborn Hall, 
who aided General Breckenridge in escaping. After leaving Washing¬ 
ton, Ga., President Davis and General Breckenridge went in different 
directions, Mr. Hall took General Breckenridge to his home, where he 
spent a week. Upon hearing of the capture of President Davis, and 
that the Federals were close upon General Breckenridge, Mr. Hall took 
him in his buggy across the country into Florida, where Gen. Brecken¬ 
ridge boarded a steamer and made good his escape. The entire trip 
had to be made by riding at night and hiding out during the day. When 
they parted General Breckenridge was so overwhelmed with gratitude 
to Mr. Hall, who absolutely refused any remuneration for his hospi¬ 
tality and aid in escaping the Federals, that he insisted that he accept 
his handsome gold watch as, a token of his friendship and esteem. 

Mr. Hall was a veteran of the Mexican war and too old to enter 
the Confederate army, but he sent two sons, one of whom was a Lieu¬ 
tenant in the 4th Georgia Cavalry. 

Mrs. Cobb was married on the 18th of July, 1900, to W. P. Cobb of 
Carroll County, Ga. Mr. Cobb is also of Confederate parentage, be¬ 
ing the youngest son of Capt. John M. Cobb, who was Captain of Com¬ 
pany I, 56th Georgia Regiment. Captain Cobb was wounded by a part 
of the same shell that destroyed the eye of former Governor Allen D. 
Candler. 

Mrs. Cobb, being imbued with the very spirit of the Confederacy, 
could not be other than an enthusiastic Daughter of the Confederacy. 
She first joined the chapter at Jesup, Ga., and then upon organization 
of the Fanny Gordon Chapter at Eastman, she had her membership 
transferred. She was Corresponding Secretary two years, Recording 



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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


Secretary two years, and was then elected President, and has served 
in this position for the past three years. She has made an excellent 
President, having had at all times the interest of the Chapter at heart. 
During the World War she w r as an earnest worker in all war work, was 
Treasurer of the Dodge County Chapter American Red Cross, which 
position she still holds, and was also a faithful worker at the Red Cross 
workroom. She was appointed by the U. S. Treasury Department to 
sell Thrift and War Saving Stamps and was instrumental in carrying 
Dodge County over the top in the War Savings drive. 

Mrs. Cobb is also an enthusiastic member of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution, her great grandfather, Lewis Hall of North Caro¬ 
lina, having been a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. She was 
Recording Secretary of the Colonel William Few Chapter for four 
years, and has served as Vice-Regent for the past two years. 

Mrs. Cobb’s only child, Wilton, is also an ardent lover of the Con¬ 
federacy and is a member and Secretary of the Eastman Chapter, 
Children of the Confederacy. 

Mrs. Cobb had the pleasure of presenting the “Bar of Honor,’’ given 
by Mrs. A. McD. Wilson, to the war mother of ’61—now living—to Mrs. 
Nancy Hendly Hargrove of Eastman, Ga., age 97 years. Her two sons 
are still living with her, who served in the Confederacy. 




Marker unveiled by Fanny Gordon Chapter, U. D. C., on June, 1920. 
In spot four miles from Eastman, where President Davis, his family 
and small force of cavalry camped on night of May the 8th, 1865, ten 
days before his capture. The old darkey is John Davis, who was 
owned by Mrs. Davis, and was carriage driver for the family, was with 
President Davis when he camped here and also when he was captured. 
The oak tree is standing now to which the horse of Mr. Davis was 
tied all night. 

Mrs. W. P. Cobb is President of Fanny Gordon Chapter of East¬ 
man, Ga. 


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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


MRS. MARY ANN LAMAR (COBB) ERWIN. 

(MRS ALEXANDER S. ERVvMN), ATHENS, GEORGIA. 

THE ORIGINATOR OE THE SOUTHERN CROSS OF HONOR 

Mary Ann Lamar Cobb was born in Athens, Georgia, February 15th, 
1850. She was the seventh of twelve children and the elder of four 
girls. 

General Howell Cobb, her father, was descended on his father’s 
side from the Howell, the Lewis and the Warner families, and on his 
mother’s from the Jacquelines, the Cary, the Rootes, Reades, Bataille and 
Willis families, Welsh, Irish, English and French blood combined. 

Her mother, Mary Ann Lamar, was of French and Irish ancestry. 
The Lamars, a Huguenot family, came from the Cevennes mountains. 
They left France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and 
settled in Maryland. 

Mary Ann Lamar Cobb was educated partly in Washington City 
and partly in Georgia, at one time attending the Lucy Cobb institute, 
at another the school of Mrs. Theodosia Ford, at Cave Springs and 
at Rome. 

Mrs. Ford was a sister of General Francis Bartow. lie and Gen¬ 
eral v^obb were devoted friends. 

On April 3rd, 1872, she married Alexander S. Erwin. He entered 

the army at seventeen years of age, as second lieutenant, became first 

lieutenant, and eventually captain of his company, which formed a 
part of Phillips Legion. 

Of this union there were nine children, Mary Lamar, Alexander S., 
Jr., Howell Cobb, John B. Lamar, Stanhope, Andrew Cobb, Williams, 
Catherine Wales and Julian. 

Alexander S. Erwin, Jr., and John B. Lamar died in young man¬ 
hood. 

Tn July, 1898, while in Atlanta, Ga., attending a reunion of Con¬ 
federate Veterans, Mrs. Alexander S. Erwin conceived the idea of 

bestowing upon veterans and representatives of Confederate heroes a 
Cross of Honor for valor and patriotism. 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


189 


MISS ADELINE BAUM. 

Miss Adeline Baum, State C. of C. Organizer, was born in Tooms- 
boro, Ga., Wilkinson County, in May, 1881, and moved to Dublin, Ga., 
in 1893, where she has since made her home. Miss Baum is the daugh¬ 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Baum of Dublin. She is the grand-daughter 
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Baum of Irwinton, Ga. Her grand¬ 
father was in Company G, ?th Georgia Regiment and served in the 
Quartermaster’s Department for some time. Her grandmother was one 
of the pioneer mothers of the Sixties and was everybody’s “Grand 
mother Baum,’’ as she is known all over Georgia, and when Sherman 
marched through Georgia she lost her hearing from exposure and the 
shock of an explosion. 

Miss Baum has been active in IJ. I). C. circles for many years. She 
has served as Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Historian and Regis¬ 
trar of the Oconee Chapter, IJ. D. C., at Dublin. 

Several years ago the Oconee Chapter organized a Children’s Chapter 
and through Miss Baum’s love for the cause and untiring work she 
was honored by having the chapter called the Adeline Baum Chapter 
Children of the Confederacy, and since its organization six years ago 
it now stands the banner chapter of all C. of C. Chapters in the State. 
All this is due to Miss Baum’s excellent, leadership, as she is the Di¬ 
rectress of this chapter. 

Miss Baum has been State C. of C. Organizer for the children for 
four years and under her leadership the number of C. of C. Chapters 
in the State has more than doubled. She has now over thirty chapters 
in good standing in the 0. of C. of Georgia and this is indeed a record 
to be proud of. 







MRS. B. B. ROSS 







BEPKESENTAT1VE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


191 


MRS. BENNETT BATTLE ROSS. 

Mrs. B. B. Boss, of Auburn, Alabama, is the daughter of the late 
William Crawford Dowdell and Elizabeth Thomas Dowdell. During the 
War between the States Mr. Dowdell served under General James H. 
Clanton, while Mrs. Dowdell was active in patriotic and relief work, 
caring for numerous sick and wounded soldiers in her own home for 
months at a time. Their home was what we call an old-fashioned home, 
where family prayers, constant hospitality, and charity to the poor 
and suffering, held sway. 

Letitia Dowdell was educated at Lucy Cobb Institute under Miss 
Mildred Butherford. She also pursued courses at the University of 
Georgia, and later was a student at the University of Berlin. For 
several years she was a teacher in Auburn, Tennessee, Texas and 
Washington City. 

In 1897 she w r as married to Dr. B. B. Boss, at present Alabama 
State Chemist, Dean of the College of Agriculture of the Alabama 
Polytechnic Institute, Professor of Chemistry and Acting President. 
Both before and since her marriage Mrs. Boss has been in close touch 
with the large scientific movements of the time; she has been identified 
with religious, educational, philanthropic and patriotic causes. A leader 
by temperament, ability, initiative and tact, she always carries to 
success the activities entrusted to her. For a number of years she 
lias been prominently associated with the United Daughters of the 
Confederacy. She has served as First Vice-President-General and Vice- 
Chairman of the Committee on Education, while at present she is 
serving on the Columbia Prize Essay Committee and on the Histoiical 
Books Committee. She has served as President of the Alabama Division, 
and is now Chairman of the Committee on Memorial Highways, His¬ 
toric Places and Events. 

Among many noteworthy achievements of her administration as 
President of the Alabama Daughters, Mrs. Boss planned and carried 
to successful completion the celebration in Montgomery, Alabama, 
February 18, 1911, of the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of 
Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States. 

Mrs. Dowdell organized the Memorial Association in Auburn, and 
directed it until her health failed. This sacred obligation she passed 
on to her daughter, and Mrs. Boss has since then planned and carried 
out the Memorial Day exercises in Auburn. 

In the Alabama D. A. B., Mrs. Boss is Chairman of the Committee 
on International Belations. She is also a club woman; at one time 
President of the State Federation of Woman’s Clubs, and now Vice- 
President of the Woman’s Club of Auburn. 

Unusual magnetism as a public speaker, mastery of subject, careful 
preparation and forceful presentation made Mrs. Boss a valuable, re- 





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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


suitful speaker in all phases of War Work. She was a State speaker 
for the four Great Loans; for the Red Cross Drives, and for the United 
War Work Drive. She was a four minute speaker in Auburn, and 
served the local and State Red Cross as well as the Y. M. C. A. 

Mrs. Ross is constant in her devotion to the cause of missions, 
active in the Auburn Society, and Vice-President of the Methodist 
Women’s Missionary Work in Alabama. 

Her greatest and most monumental work is her Sunday School 
Class of college boys. Through constant personal interest and con¬ 
tact throughout the years, a large company of men have been held 
to the straight path and instilled with high ideals in this unique class. 

With lives full of interest in every good cause, with a home typical 
in its hospitality of the best traditions of the South, Dr. and Mrs. 
Ross are the center of a social life that hinges on Christianity in 
action, and reaches out to all strata of society. Where there is need 
of body or soul or mind, Mrs. Ross loves to serve, and unfailingly 
makes the opportunity. 










MRS. SYDNEY PERRY COOPER 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


195 


MRS. SYDNEY PERRY COOPER, 

Mrs. Cooper, though now a daughter of North Carolina, is a Georgian 
by birth. She is a granddaughter on her father’s side of Henry R. 
Jackson, one of the most distinguished men on Georgia’s roll of honor, 
successively Minister to Mexico and Minister to Austria, and a dis¬ 
tinguished soldier, first in the Mexican War and later in the War 
Between the States. On the mother’s side she is a granddaughter of 
Colonel John W. Renfroe, for many years State Treasurer of Georgia. 

Mary Louisa Jackson was born in Atlanta., Ga., the daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Howell Cobb Jackson. Her father was one of the leading citi¬ 
zens of Atlanta and of the State. After completing her preparatory 
studies she was graduated from Washington Seminary, Atlanta. 

November 7, 1900, she was married to Sydney Perry Cooper, of Hen¬ 
derson, N. C., where she has since resided. Her husband is a son of 
David Young Cooper, one of the most prominent business men of North 
Carolina, being President of two large cotton mills, and having exten¬ 
sive business interests in other directions. 

The fathers of both Mr. and Mrs. Cooper and both of Mrs. Cooper’s 
grandfathers took an active and honored part in the War Between the 
States, and Mrs. Cooper cherished with the pride and devotion of a 
true daughter of the South the brilliant record made by them in this 
great struggle. 

She first became a member of the Atlanta Chapter U. D. C. Since 
190(1 she has been President of the Vance County Chapter at Henderson. 
During her administration the Confederate monument at Henderson was 
erected, the inscription being written by Major Orren Randolph Smith. 
At the Confederate Reunion held in Little Rock she was Sponsor for 
North Carolina, her Maid of Honor being her husband’s sister, Miss 
Genevieve Cooper. 

Mrs. Cooper has been prominent in the North Carolina Federation 
of Woman’s Clubs, having served as First Vice-President, Second Vice- 
President, and Chairman of various important committees. The prompt 
recognition which the women of North Carolina have extended to her 
coming to them from another State, is a high tribute to her worth and 
ability. 

She is a member of the Order of the Crown, Colonial Dames, Daugh¬ 
ters of the American Revolution and Dames of 1846. During the World 
War she took an active and most serviceable part in Red Cross and 
other war activities. 

Mr. and Mrs. Cooper have four children: David Jackson Cooper, 
Elizabeth Renfroe Cooper, Willie Perry Cooper and Sydney Perry 
Cooper, Jr. 


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ELIZABETH RENFROE COOPER 



REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OP THE SOUTH. 


197 


ELIZABETH RENFROE COOPER. 

Elizabeth Renfroe Cooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Cooper, 
Henderson, N. C., great granddaughter of General Henry R. Jackson, 
Savannah, Ga,, and Colonel John Renfroe, Atlanta, Ga., grand-daughter 
of Howell Cobb Jackson, Atlanta, and D. Y. Cooper of Henderson, N. C. 
Representing the Orren Randolph Smith Chapter C. of C., she unveiled 
the Confederate monument, presented oil painting to North Carolina 
Division U. D. C., and was the youngest delegate to the general con¬ 
vention in Savannah, Ga. 






REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


199 


MRS. ROSCOE HALL CHESLEY. 

Mrs. May Carithers Clieslev is prominent in the South and in her 
adopted State of Massachusetts, as a founder and officer in the United 
Daughters of the Confederacy, and as presenting in readings and story- 
the rich heritage of the South in history and literature and the quaint 
folk lore of the ante bellum negro. 

She was born in Monroe, Georgia, March 30, 1883. Soon her parents 
moved to the classic old university town of Athens, Georgia, where Mary 
Carithers grew to young womanhood, in the culture and graces of this 
old Southern educational and social environment. She graduated at 
Lucy Cobb Institute, then took graduate work and taught. In 1902-3 
she took a special course at Emerson College, Boston. In 1907 she 
married Roscoe H. Chesley of New Hampshire and Boston, where she 
has made her home for the past six years, and where her five-vear- 
old son has been reared. 

Since moving to her adopted home she has continued the leadership 
so marked as a young girl in the South. She organized the Boston 
Chapter of the U. D. C., and has been its President for five years, serv¬ 
ing, too, on two general committees of the U. D. C.. The Jefferson 
Davis Monument Committee and the General Relief Committee. In de¬ 
veloping the Boston Chapter, her rare graciousness, tact and judgment 
were great factors in the wonderful enthusiasm and efficiency of this 
organization. 

Delegates to the Louisville convention will recall the brilliant ad¬ 
dress of Mrs. Chesley there, so full of ardent patriotism and animation 
that she carried conviction and aroused the greatest enthusiasm. 

Boston has discovered Mrs. Chesley’s rare talent as a reader, and 
she is frequently called on for programs and addresses. In them she 
finds many opportunities to present Southern history and story. Her 
negro dialect is always in demand, for she gives it with the art and 
sympathy of a daughter of the South. 

Mrs. Chesley came into the Daughters through distinguished Confed¬ 
erate soldiers on both sides of her family, who gave valiant service 
under Lee, Longstreet and Wheeler. She is also an officer in one of 
the Boston D. A. R. Chapters. 

No one who has known this little valiant Boston Southerner can 
forget her charm of face and manner, her spiritual nature and gracious 
courtesy and her resilient intellectuality. 





MRS. JULIAN C. LANE 



REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


201 


MRS. JULIAN C. LANE. 

Mrs. Warren Hollingsworth Lane is a daughter of Screven County 
by birth, a daughter of Bulloch County by adoption. She belongs to 
one of the oldest and most prominent families of Georgia, and in her 
veins flows the fighting blood of the American Revolution. 

Her father, John Cornelius Hollingsworth, son of Isaac Hollings¬ 
worth and Phoebe Lee, a native of Screven County, entered the war as 
a member of the Ogeechee Rifles, of the 25th Georgia Regiment. On 
account of his strength and skill in manly exercises he wore the name 
of ‘‘ Strong Man ’ ’ of the 25th Georgia. Her mother’s maiden name 
was Janie Dixon. 

In 1906, Miss Hollingsworth was married to Julian C. Carswell Lane. 
They have two children, Burdette Hollingsworth Lane and Julian Cur¬ 
tis Carswell Lane, Jr. 

Since the organization of the Bulloch County Chapter U. D. C., Mrs. 
Lane has been the honored and beloved President, and by right of 
heritage is numbered high in the ranks of loyal, noble and true Daugh¬ 
ters. Filled with an overflowing love for her country and its every 

detail of history, working untiringly to establish the truth of Confed¬ 
erate history, and meeting with unprecedented success in all depart¬ 
ments of the work of the U. D. C., her chapter leading the Georgia Di¬ 
vision in free scholarships, and doing splendid historical work, small 
w T onder that she is lovingly called ‘‘the apple of Miss Mildred Ruther¬ 
ford’s eye,” and right well she deserves the cognomen. 

In the World War Mrs. Lane quickly responded to our country’s 
call and immediately began work at home, where she ardently served 
in every phase of war work, but at the same time she felt that her 
service was greatly needed in France and no sooner had her gallant 
husband offered his services than she, too, put in her application for 

foreign duties. About this time she was appointed Captain Motor 

Corps for Bulloch County. The armistice was signed in a few weeks, 
so she did not serve ‘‘Over There,” but nevertheless she proved her 
willingness to endure privations and hardships in the ranks of the Red 
Cross. 

She is a woman of rare charm of manner, strong personality, at¬ 
tractive, capable and efficient. Winning all hearts by the brightness 
of her smile, her wit and gayety, admired and loved by all, she is in¬ 
deed one of those who make the grand old South famous for her women. 
She is now State Chairman for Scholarships for the Georgia Division. 



MRS. W. C. MARTIN 



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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


203 


MRS. W. C. MARTIN. 

Mrs. Ella Lewis Martin is the daughter of the late Hon. J. Q. A. 
Lewis and his wife, Mrs. Susan McKamy Lewis. Her father was a gal¬ 
lant Confederate soldier and served with distinction throughout the war. 
Her mother was equally patriotic and was active in all work for the 
welfare of the soldiers and to the end of her life her heart and hand 
were ever ready to minister to the needs of a Confederate veteran. 

Mrs. Martin received her education at the Dalton Female College 
and was graduated from that institution. 

She is a talented musician and is prominent in musical circles. She 
has recently been instrumental in promoting community singing in her 
home town, Dalton, Ga., which has proven wonderfully successful. 

Mrs. Martin has been an active member of the Brvan M. Thomas 
Chapter, U. D. C., Dalton, Ga., since its organization in 1896, having- 
served the chapter as President for nine years, five consecutive years 
and two terms of two years each. During her administration the chap¬ 
ter progressed wonderfully, nearly doubling in membership and accom¬ 
plished a splendid work, becoming one of the leading chapters of the 
State. 

She organized chapters of the U. D. C. at Calhoun, Ga., and Spring- 
Place, Ga. Under her auspices a chapter of the Children of the Con 
federacy was organized at Dalton. 

She was also a member of the Joseph E. Johnstone Monument Asso¬ 
ciation, which erected the handsome bronze and granite monument to 
him at a cost of $5,600.00, the only one erected in his honor. 

She inaugurated the movement to mark the historic sites along the 
Dixie Highway and by appeals to chapters in Georgia and Tennessee 
inspired others to do the same. 

A beautiful iron fence was erected around the soldiers’ cemetery 
during her administration and the memorial parks were always well 
c^red for. 

She has always shown a loving sympathy and tender care for the 
Confederate veteran and no appeal to her from one has ever been made 
in vain. 

She has been actively identified with the Lesche Woman’s Club, the 
oldest literary club in the State, and is a prominent member of the 
Governor John Milledge Chapter, D. A. R., and claims descent through 
many lines of Revolutionary ancestry. 

She is a leader in the best things which the women of her section, 
community and State are doing. A recent eloquent demonstration of 
this was her appointment as Chairman for Whitfield County of the 
Women’s National Council of Defense and as Acting President of the 
Seventh District Federated Women’s Clubs. Her service through the 
medium of the Red Cross during the World War was a notable one, 
having been Joint Chairman of woman’s work for Whitfield County. 




WALTER P. ANDREWS 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. WALTER P. ANDREWS. 

Mrs. Walter Pemberton Andrews is a native daughter of Georgia, 
having been born in Atlanta. She was the youngest child of Hon. 
Willis Patterson Chisholm and Martha Burnett Spurlock, who were 
among the splendid men and women of an earlier day who helped to 
lay the foundations of the wonderful City of Atlanta. 

Mr. Chisholm, her father, was not accepted into the regular army 
of the Confederacy on account of physical disabilities, but he took 
his place in the home guard and rendered valuable services to the Con¬ 
federacy and his people in that important capacity. Her mother, Mrs. 
Martha Spulloch Chisholm, was a most charming woman of the type 
which has reflected such lustre upon the Old South, and was a leader 
in the activities of the women of her day. She served as Vice-President 
of the Atlanta Chapter of the Confederated Southern Memorial Asso¬ 
ciation at a time when that association was struggling for permanent 
establishment. 

Elizabeth Leontine Chisholm was considered one of the most beau¬ 
tiful girls of her day, inheriting from her lovely mother those quiet, 
dignified traits of exquisite character that belong to the Southern 
woman. 

She was married to Hon. Walter P. Andrews, a prominent membe * 
of the Atlanta bar, who has occupied high stations of civic, fraternal 
and political trust. His father was the late Major L. D. Andrews of 
North Carolina, who served in the Thirty-eighth North Carolina Infan¬ 
try, C. S. A. The latest public service of Colonel Andrews was as 
General Chairman of the committees who brought the U. C. V. Reunion 
to Atlanta, in October, 1919. He was untiring and most efficient in 
his efforts to make this reunion the glorious success that it was. 

Mrs. Andrews, one of the most beautiful and cultured of Southern 
women, was appointed Matron of Honor for the South upon the staff 
of the Commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. She is Second 
Vice-Regent of the Atlanta Chapter D. A. R., and was Chairman of Com¬ 
munity Centers Bureau of the Woman’s Committee of the State Council 
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HISTORY OF THE WINNIE DAVIS CHAPTER 
C. OF C, OF SAVANNAH, GA. 


In 1900 Miss Addie Barnard proposed to gather together the chil¬ 
dren of Savannah who were the descendents of Confederate soldiers 
and sailors who fought during the War between the States, and teach 
them the true history and thus destroy the false teaching that was 
found in history then used in the public schools, to teach them that 
their fathers or grandfathers were not rebels or traitors, but fighting 
for their rights, their homes and firesides. To accomplish this, Miss 
Barnard had each teacher in the different schools announce to the 
children in her class that a meeting would be held at the Chatham 
Artillery Hall, Bull street, naming the day and hour. This notice had 
its effect, judging by the large gathering of children; she then ar¬ 
ranged monthly meetings and after she was able to regulate every¬ 
thing, she appointed officers and tried to make the meetings interest¬ 
ing in many ways. It was not unusual to see the hall crowded all 
the center, round the sides, even sitting around the platform and down 
the steps. One hundred to one hundred and fifty was the usual count. 
There seemed to be great enthusiasm. She wanted these children to 
be taught to love and honor the memory of those brave men who gave 
their lives for the Confederacy, and love and respect the living ones 
by participating in their exercises on Memorial Bay, and at any time 
they were called on to take part. There were several ladies who 
always attended these meetings and offered their services, which Miss 
Barnard accepted. Every one was looking forward for Memorial Bay. 
In 1900, April 26th, the children turned out, the girls dressed in white 
and red ribbon and the boys in white shirts and red ties. As the long 
line of children came along with their beautiful new flags, it was in¬ 
deed an inspiring sight. Miss Barnard retired in about two years; her 
health would not permit her to continue. After a State Organizer 
was appointed there were a number of children who could not meet 
the requirements, for they were furnished with blanks to fill out. Since 
Miss Barnard retired we have had six Birectors. Miss Elizabeth Hanna 
of Atlanta brought before the convention the advisability of a separate 
convention for the children. It was not approved at the time but has 
recently been passed on favorably and this year the convention will 
be held in Savannah June 29th and 30th. 






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MRS. PETER J. NIX 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


209 


MRS. PETER J. NIX. 

(BERTHA WEIGLE NIX) 

STATE DIRECTOR FOR CHILDREN OF THE CONFEDERACY, 
OF GEORGIA DIVISION. 

Mrs. Peter J. Nix, daughter of Colonel John M. Weigle, gallant Con¬ 
federate soldier and noble Christian gentleman, and of Emily McC. Weigle 
of Augusta, Ga. 

A member since girlhood of the Daughters of the Confederacy and 
having a deep reverence and love for the Confederate cause, it was 
but natural that Mrs. Nix should assume leadership in C. of C. work. 

She was appointed Director of the Winnie Davis Chapter of Sa¬ 
vannah, in April, 1916, soon making of it one of the leading and most 
active and useful chapters in the State. 

In 1919 Mrs. Nix was appointed State Director for Georgia, which 
office she now holds. 

Her father. Colonel Weigle, enlisted at Augusta, March 18, 1861, 
and was immediately sent to Virginia, where he participated in many 
engagements, including Carrick’s Ford and Cheat Mountain, Va., and 
Hancock, Mr. In 1862 he assisted in organizing a cavalry company at 
Augusta. In 1863 he took part in the combats at Griffin and 
Griswoldville, Ga., and served in the outer trenches at Savannah until 
the evacuation of the city by General Hardee. 

In 1877 Colonel Weigle founded the Augusta Evening News, which 
he published for twelve years and at the time of his death was editor 
of the Confederate page of the Augusta Chronicle. Enterprising and 
public spirited, it was through his efforts that the present attractive 
system of parks on Greene street in Augusta was established. He was 
chairman of the board of stewards of St. Janies Methodist Church for 
twenty-eight years. Truly may it be said that he was a power for 
good in his community „and a hero of peace as well as of war. 

The Children of the Confederacy organization, which is auxiliary 
to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, is as necessary for the 
future preservation and teaching of the truths of Confederate history, 
as the Sunday school is to the church. The Children of the Confederacy 
of today will be the Daughters of tomorrow and it is to them we must 
look for the perpetuation of the glorious deeds of our forefathers in the 
days of ’61 and ’65. 

It is the aim and purpose of the Children of the Confederacy organi¬ 
zation to have a Chapter in every city and town where there is a Chap¬ 
ter of the U. D. C. to inculcate in the minds of the children the truths 
of Confederate history, and to uphold the traditions of the Old South 
and to fit them for useful and active membership in the parent organi¬ 
zation, that they may carry on the work being so nobly done by the 
Daughters today. 

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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


MRS. ROBERT S. PIERCE. 


Mrs. Ella Lewis Pierce was born on an old Southern plantation in 
Jackson County, Florida, ten miles from the historic old town of Mari¬ 
anna, which has been her home town since she was three years old. 
She was the daughter of Richard Lewis and Bettie McNealy Lewis. 
She is descended from one of the most prominent and highly honored 
families in that section. 

She had five uncles who served in the Confederate army, William 

Augustus Lewis, Hentz Lewis, William McNealy, Sidney McNealy and 

George McNealy. Her grandfather McNealy was a member of the 
Secession Convention and one of the signers of the ordinance that voted 
Florida out of the Union. Both her paternal and maternal grandfathers 
were too old for active service in the army, but with other old men and 
boys too young for the battle line, which last included her father and 
her uncle, Arthur Lewis, defended the town of Marianna against the 
raid of Federal troops September 2, 1864. This is known in Florida 
history as “The Battle of Marianna.” On that day her grandfather 
Lewis was killed and her grandfather McNealy severely wounded. 

In 1898 Miss Lewis was married to Hr. Robert S. Pierce, a prom¬ 
inent physician of Columbus, Ga. They have since made their home in 

Marianna, where Hr. Pierce is still engaged in the practice of medicine. 
They are the happy parents of three children, James Lewis, Robert 
Samuel and Elizabeth Lewis. 

In 1906 the compiler of this volume had the honor of assisting in 
the organization of a Chapter of the U. H. C. in Marianna, of which 
Mrs. Pierce was a charter member. It was named the William Henry 
Milton Chapter, in honor of one of Florida’s distinguished citizens. 
Mrs. Pierce has been an active and influential participant in all the 
work of this Chapter since its organization and is now its President. 

The Florida Hivision of the U. H. C. has commemorated the heroic 
deeds of the men, young and old, who fell at the Battle of Marianna 
by making September 27 Memorial Hay and through the influence of 
the William Henry Milton Chapter the Florida Hivision is now eontrib 
uting funds toward the erection of a monument to be erected in Mari¬ 
anna. The William Henry Milton Chapter has published in pamphlet 
form a number of addresses on the Battle of Marianna, and the proceeds 
from the sale of this pamphlet will go toward the Marianna monument. 

At the twenty-fifth annual convention of the Florida Hivision of 
the U. H. C. held in Tampa, May 4-7, 1920, Mrs. Pierce was elected 
Vice-President of the Florida Hivision. 











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MRS. MADGE D. BURNEY. 


Mrs. Madge D. Burney of Waynesboro, Miss., is the State Directress 
of the Children of the Confederacy in that State. She is a charter 
member of the Lundy Gunn Chapter and lias served this chapter in 
various official capacities. She was Recording Secretary and later 
Corresponding Secretary and then President. She is now Vice-President. 

Previous to taking up her work as Directress of the C. of C., Mrs. 
Burney served for a term of years as State Organizer. Those who are 
familiar with her successful work in the offices she has previously held 
predict for her great success in the new work with the Children of 
the Confederacy. 

During the World War she was Chairman of some of the Liberty 
Loan drives and the Victory Loan drive. She was also Chairman for 
Wayne County of the Y. W. C. A. campaign and after that Chairman 
of the Red Cross Christmas Seal drive. She has recently been ap' 
pointed Chairman for her county of the modern health crusade. 

She was born at Aberdeen, Miss., Monroe County, and is the grand¬ 
daughter of John Durrett, who served through the War Between the 
States. 








THE DAISY M’LAURIN CHAPTER CHILDREN OF CONFEDERACY OF MISSISSIPPI DIVISION., LULA, MISS. 








REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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A CHAPTER OF THE CHILDREN OF THE 
CONFEDERACY OF MISS., DIV. 


The Daisy McLaurin Auxiliary of the Lyda C. Moore Chapter, No. 
19, Lula, Miss., was organized by Miss Lyda C. Moore in 1916 with Mrs. 
Lester Wilson as Director. Splendid work was done the following three 
years. In 1919, under the supervision of Miss Moore, the Auxiliary 
undertook the support of three orphans—two Italians, Mostardini and 
Guillietta Ottorino, Siena, Italy, and one French, Jean Gayard. A 
Thanksgiving offering of $2-1.00 was sent to Italian orphans; $14.00 to 
the maintenance fund, and $5.00 to the hospital bed fund, while many 
attractive scrap books were made for the soldiers. 

In February Pauline Townsend was appointed Director. She is 
glad to report that under the leadership of a very capable President, 
Evelyn Palmore, the Auxiliary is wide-awake. The programs are in¬ 
teresting and instructive and each of the thirty children seems glad to 
do his or her share. We have contributed to the Gateway and Main¬ 
tenance funds and paid for our orphans’ support. With the proceeds 
of our successful egg hunt we hope to give more money to the various 
funds. 

In this Auxiliary the Lyda C. Moore Chapter has excellent material 
for successful work in benevolent purposes and in keeping the memory 
of our great Confederacy alive and glowing. 






MRS. J. SUMTER RHAME 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


217 


MRS. J. SUMTER RHAME. 

Willie Brown Rhame was born and reared in the old historic city 
of Charleston, S. C. She is the daughter of the late William Kirby 
Brown, who was born in West Avon, N. Y., February 8, 1841, of English 
parents, his father and mother coming to America the year previous 
from Leicester. In 1884 the family moved to Charleston, S. C., where 
William Brown spent his youth and grew up with the sentiments which 
dominated almost every South Carolinian of that day. 

At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the Lafayette Artillery 
under Captain Kanapaux and later was transferred to the Palmetto Guard 
Liege Artillery, for service on the South Carolina coast, where from 
1862 to the close of the war there was fighting enough to satisfy the 
most ambitious. He participated in the battle of Pocotaligo, in the 
combats at Coosawhatchie and on John’s Island, in the campaigns of 
Carolinas and fought at Bentonville, the last battle in which Sherman 
and Johnson were pitted against each other. 

Mrs. Rhames’ mother is the daughter of the late Captain Alexander 
Richardson Brodie, a native of Scotland, who served as Corporal in 
the Silver Greys of Georgia. 

Mrs. Rhame organized the Fort Sumter Chapter C. of C. of Charles¬ 
ton, and is serving her fifth year as State Director C. of C. of South 
Carolina. She is Corresponding Secretary of the Charleston Chapter 
U. D. C. She has served as Chairman of the Charleston City Union 
of King’s Daughters and Sons and is now Secretary of their Riverside 
Infirmary Association. During the World War she was Chairman of 
the Hospital Committee under the War Camp Community Service of 
Charleston. She served in all drives and was active in all war work. 
She is now serving on the board of the Y. W. C. A. as Chairman of 
their Membership Committee. 

In 1914 she was married to Dr. J. Sumter Rhame, a practicing phy¬ 
sician of Charleston. Dr. Rhame served as a lieutenant in the Medical 
Corps of the U. S. Navy during the World War. 




FORT SUMTER CHAPTER OF C. OF C. CHARLESTON, S. C. 
The officers of the Chapter are as follows: M. Elies Langley, Di¬ 
rector; Julia Thayer, President; Ann Riley, First Vice-President and 
Registrar; Mary Skinner, Second Vice-President; Mercedes Catlier- 
wood, Recording Secretary; Martha Kirk, Corresponding Secretary; 
Helen Clark Martin, Treasurer. 





REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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FORT SUMTER CHAPTER C. OF C. 

Fort Sumter Chapter Children of the Confederacy is located at 
Charleston, S C., and is one of the most active Chapters in the State. 

Fort Sumter Chapter meets the first Wednesday of every month, in 
the old historic Market Hall, which is of itself one of the attractions 
that visitors to Charleston always seek, and in the Chapter room the 
Daughters of the Confederacy, maintain a very interesting and unique 
museum, relating to the days of the “Lost Cause.” 

The members of the Children’s Chapter are always busy preparing 
dolls for a sale or having other entertainment to keep up interest later 
on, to maintain its growing membership. All are trying for the prize 
offered by the Director to the one who secured the greatest number of 
new members in the year. 






MRS. WALTER SCOTT COLEMAN 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


221 


MRS. WALTER SCOTT COLEMAN. 

Mrs. Walter Scott Coleman was born ancl reared in Cedartown, Ga., 
the daughter of Colonel Ivy F., and Mrs. Annie Read Thompson. Her 
father served four years in the Confederate army, with a splendid 
record as a good soldier in Phillip’s Legion. Her uncle on her mother’s 
side, Abner A. Read, was a Confederate soldier from Alabama, and was 
a member of General Lomax’s Division. As Miss Annie Read Thompson, 
she was united in marriage to Mr. Walter S. Coleman while living in 
Cedartown. 

She was a charter member of the Cedartown Chapter U. D. C., holding 
the offices of Registrar and President respectively. During her admin¬ 
istration the Cedartown Chapter raised the fund of $2,000.00 to erect 
the Confederate monument to the memory of the Polk County Confed 
erate soldiers, located on the Court House grounds in Cedartown. As 
President of the chapter, Mrs. Coleman delivered the monument to the 
surviving veterans in an address, paying tribute to the heroism of the 
soldier dead who went to the front from Polk County. On removing to 
Atlanta in 1911, she transferred her membership to the Atlanta Chapter, 
and has held office as Recording Secretary, First Vice-President and 
President respectively. During her connection with the Daughters, she 
had done much for old soldiers in various ways, and especially the vet¬ 
erans at the Georgia Soldiers’ Home. 

As Chairman of various committees she has participated actively in 
the work of the chapter, and has given much time to the educational 
activities of the organization. As Chairman of the Scholarship Com¬ 
mittee she has been instrumental in placing many deserving boys and 
girls in the following educational institutions: Washington Seminary, 
Woodberry School, Elizabeth Mather College, Marist College, Mrs. R. B. 
Blackburn’s School of Expression, Mrs. W. S. Yeates, Voice; Mrs. W. 

C. Key, Piano; Draughon’s and the Southern Business Schools. During 
the World War she represented the Atlanta Chapter in various branches 
of war work activities at Camp Gordon, Camp Jesup and Fort 
McPherson. 

Mrs. Coleman was elected First Vice-President of Georgia Division U. 

D. C. at Valdosta October, 1919. 






MRS. THOMAS WOOD PARRY 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


223 


MRS. THOMAS WOOD PARRY. 

Mrs. Thomas Wood Parry, one of the most active and earnest mem¬ 
bers of the United .Daughters of the Confederacy, and one who had filled 
successfully many high offices in the organization, died at Kansas City, 
Mo., her home, November 22, 1919. 

Mrs. Parry had just completed a term of two years as President of 
the Missouri Division, her term of office having expired in October, 
1919. At the 1918 General Convention held in Louisville, Ivy., in April, 
1919, the convention having been postponed until this date on account 
of the Influenza epidemic of 1918, she was elected Recording Secretary 
General and had served about seven months, but realizing that her 
health would not permit her to perform the arduous duties of the office, 
had resigned a few weeks before her death. 

Mrs. Parry had been ill since August but recovered somewhat and 
attended the Missouri state convention in Springfield in October, where 
she presided. Shortly after her return from that convention, her phy¬ 
sician and her family persuaded her to go to the Christian Church Hos¬ 
pital in Kansas City, believing that a complete rest of several weeks 
would restore her health. She was thought to be improving until the 
evening of November 2'lst, when Pneumonia developed and she died 
very suddenly the next evening, November 22. Her doctor resorted to 
a transfusion of blood in the effort to save her life, her two sons giving 
of their blood, but she lived only an hour after the operation. 

Mrs. Parry was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Duke, who 
had lived almost all of their lives in and near Kansas City. Mr. Duke 
was born in Ohio County, Kentucky, and came to Jackson County, Mo., 
with his father and mother when a boy of fourteen. Mr. Duke was 
a pioneer live stock commission man and died about fifteen years ago. 
He fought throughout the Civil War under General Price and at the 
close of the war remained for several years in Mississippi where Ins 
branch of the army disbanded. He was joined here by his wife and 
two small children, a son and daughter, and it was here near Austin. 
Miss., that the subject of this sketch, Sarah Lee Duke, was born Feb¬ 
ruary 1st, 1868. Mr. Duke returned to Kansas City Mo. with his family 
two years later. 

Mrs. Duke was Theresa Irwin whose father and mother came from 
Mason County, Kentucky in an early day and settled near Independence, 
Mov, where Mrs. Duke was born. 

Mrs. Parry was always known to her family and friends by her 
middle name, Lee. She was educated in the schools of Kansas City, 
graduating in 1887. She was known throughout her school life for her 
energy and leadership and her fun-loving disposition. There were few 
entertainments by the young people of her circle in which she was not 
a leader. She was an accomplished musician, both vocal and instru¬ 
mental. 




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At the age of twenty-two she was married to Thomas Wood Parry, 
then a young newspaper man who three years before had come to 
Kansas City from Mason County, Kentucky. 

The only living member of the Duke family now is Mrs. Parrv’s 
sister, Mrs. Ella D. Taylor of Kansas City, her brother having died 
many years ago. 

Mrs. Parry is survived by her husband and two sons, Duke X., 
twenty-six years old and Thomas Wood, Jr., eighteen. Duke has re¬ 
cently graduated from the School of Journalism at the University of 
Missouri, and Thomas Wood is a Freshman this year, 1920, at the same 
school. 

Mrs. Parry became active in U. D. C. work about fifteen years ago 
and was a leader in the organization of the Robert E. Lee Chapter in 
Kansas City. She refused to be made the first President of the Chap¬ 
ter but later served a full term of two years. In 1917 she was elected 
Missouri State President at the convention in Columbia, Mo., and was 
re-elected the next year at the convention in Sedalia. Her term of office 
was characterized by much energetic work, much of it being war work 
in which she participated untiringly. Her greatest interest was probably 
in educational work and she was Chairman of the Missouri State Com¬ 
mittee on Education for a term and a member of the national com¬ 
mittee during the presidential term of Miss Mary B. Poppenheim, serv¬ 
ing on that committee until her election to the office of Recording Sec¬ 
retary General. 

Mrs. Parry, although attaining high distinction in the organization 
which she loved and worked for, was in no sense of the word a club 
woman. She was not a suffragist and was not a member of any club 
but the U. D. C. which she always said she belonged to not because 
of any desire to keep up any sectional differences but that she might 
help all she could to take care of the veterans of the Lost Cause, help 
to educate their children, honor their heroes, and see to it as far as 
possible that history did them justice. She never did anything half 
way and so thoroughly did she enter into the work that she mastered 
parliamentary law and knew so well every detail of every part of the 
organization, had such a clear head and such good judgment that her 
advice was sought by her colleagues far and near. When she entered 
the work she was very timid and shrank from public appearance. She 
schooled herself in this work to such an extent that it was no trouble 
for her to speak before any crowd and a prominent veteran said of her 
not long ago: “'There is a woman who knows exactly what she is talking 
about, is not afraid to say it and knows when to stop. ” 

She was more than anything else a wife and mother and a rare 
type of Southern womanhood. 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


225 


AUXILIARY TO THE DAUGHTERS OF THE 
CONFEDERACY. 

The work of the Children of the Confederacy as Auxiliary to U. 
D. C. had its beginning in the Third Annual Convention of the Geor¬ 
gia Division which met at Augusta, Ga., October 14-15, 1897. 

In the afternoon of the 14th Miss Bunnie Love, of Atlanta, read a 
strong paper advocating the organizing of children’s chapters of Daugh¬ 
ters of the Confederacy. Mrs. McDowell Wolff, of Atlanta, had before 
this organization a band of children and called them Children of the 
Confederacy. 

A committee was appointed by Mrs. Eve, the President, with 
Miss Bunnie Love, Chairman; 

Mrs. W. F. Eve, 

Miss Rosa Woodberry, 

Mrs. R. E. Park, 

Mrs. B. O. Miller. 

This committee was given authority to draw up the plans for or¬ 
ganizing these chapters as Auxiliaries of the Daughters of the Con¬ 
federacy. 

The committee was afterwards changed to 
Mrs. Chas. Rice, Chairman; 

Mrs. McDowell Wolff, 

Mrs. Wm. M. Nixon, 

Miss Susie Gerdine. 

Miss Sallie Jones, 

Miss Bunnie Love. 

Their report was read at the Rome convention, October, 1898, and 
adopted. 

A letter was read from Mrs. McDowell Wolff on the importance 
of teaching the children true history. 

Mrs. Chas. Rice, of Atlanta, offered the following resolution: 

‘ 1 Whereas, Mrs. E. P. McDowell Wolff originated the Order of 
Children of the Confederacy in Georgia, be it 

1 < Resolved, That in recognition of this act of patriotism she be 
known as the founder of the order, and her name be thus inscribed 
upon documents wherein the names of the officers appear.” 

This resolution was unanimously adopted. 

The committee presented as suggestions the constitution and by¬ 
laws governing these chapters—(Rome Minutes pages 38-39). 

Mrs. A. F. Mamelstein of Savannah, was the first appointed organ¬ 
izer of children’s chapters. 


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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MISS LILLIE MARTIN. 

Lillie Martin, President of the O. C. Horne Chapter), U. D. C., 
Hawkinsville, Ga., daughter of Sarah Eleanora Winn and Captain John 
H. Martin. Captain Martin enlisted as private in the army of the 
Confederate States of America, August 31, 1861. He was rapidly pro¬ 
moted to orderly Sergeant, then First Lieutenant, and finally to Cap¬ 
tain of Company D, Seventeenth Georgia Regiment. 

He fought in thirty-three battles, was wounded eleven times and 
on April 14, 1865 he began his journey homeward on foot, from Greens¬ 
boro, N. C., to Bainbridge, Ga. He never took the oath and he never 
surrendered. What a wonderful war record to be written in so few 
words. 

In days of peace he was appointed Commander of his Camp, was 
promoted to Brigadier General, and then to Major General of the Geor¬ 
gia Division. In civil life he was a lawyer and in 1905 he was elected 
Judge of the Oconee Circuit which office he held with distinction until 
the day of his death, September 14:, 1913. It was said that during his 
administration as Major General of the Georgia Division more new 
camps were organized and more “slumbering camps’’ revived than in 
any other Division. 

This characteristic of untiring effort and efficient leadership his 
daughter, Lillie Martin, has inherited and displayed in every phase of 
her life. 

She was educated at Agnes Scott College. There she attained prom¬ 
inence by her assistance in organizing the first literary society of that 
college, the “ Mnemosynean, ” and by her work as Editor-in-Chief of 
the college paper. 

Her public activities, since her school days have been marked with 
success. She was made Chairman of a committee to organize a Library 
for Hawkinsville, and her efforts aided greatly in keeping that insti¬ 
tution alive. She helped organize the Woman’s Club of Hawkinsville, 
and also a Chapter of Children of the Confederacy, and she has much 
efficient church work to her credit. 

Her first conspicuous U. D. C. work was when she served as Chair¬ 
man of the Committee for unveiling the Confederate Monument. On 
that occasion in behalf of the U. D. C., she presented the monument 
to the veterans, to Hawkinsville and to Pulaski County. 

In 1908 she was elected President of the O. C. Horne Chapter, U. D. 
C., and has been unanimously re-elected each succeeding year. During 
her administration the Chapter paid in less than a year a debt of 
$2,000.00 on Confederate Monument, marked over 200 graves of Con¬ 
federate soldiers with marble markers, handsomely furnished Chapter 
rooms, presented Chapter by the City of Hawkinsville. Helped C. of C. 
buy a piano and aided many local endeavors. Won the Historical Essay 
banner one year. Within three years’ time sent State Historian 2,009 
pages of typewritten historical sketches. 




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The Chapter has also won the Raines banner for increased mem¬ 
bership three consecutive years, a record held by no other Chapter. 

By visiting the schools Miss Martin has secured the co-operation of 
every school in Pulaski County in observing every memorial advocated 
by the U. D. C. The Chapter has placed in every school in the county 
Georgia flags and portraits of Confederate heroes . 

Of the war relief fund $6,3561.51 raised by the U. D. C. of Georgia, 
the O. C. Horne Chapter contributed $1 £’,305.68 again leading the State 
in this work, this being more than was contributed by any other 
Chapter. 

Miss Martin is the only woman in Pulaski entitled to the Red Cross 
Service Badge with blue ribbon with two white stripes. She originated 
the plan for pensioning the veterans in the Soldiers’ Home. 

She l^egan the work of the U. D. C. of Georgia, helping to furnish 
the Woman’s dormitory at Georgia University in Athens, and is now 
Assistant State Historian. 

Through her unbounded devotion to the work and her continuous 
efforts, the 0. C. Horne Chapter is now called the Banner Chapter of 
Georgia. 

‘‘Age can not wither nor custom stale her infinite variety.” 































































































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MRS. FANNIE RANSOM WILLIAMS 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. F. M. WILLIAMS. 


Mrs. F. M. Williams of Newton, North Carolina, known best to 
the Daughters of the Confederacy as Fannie Ransom Williams, is the 
oldest child of General Robert Ransom and wife, Mrs. Minnie Huntt 
Ransom. She was born in Washington, D. C., November 12, 1856; w r as 
educated by her mother and at the Sacred Heart Convent, Manhattan- 
ville, N. Y. After teaching for several years, in 1882 Fannie Ransom 
married Mr. Francis Marion Williams of Newton, North Carolina, and 
has lived iji that town ever since. To this couple were born nine chil¬ 
dren, eight of whom lived to be grown. The three sons volunteered in 
the great World War and saw service in France. 

In 1903 Mrs. Williams organized the Ransom-Sherrill Chapter, No. 
653, U. D. C., in her home town and has served as its President ever 
since, except for four years, when she was a State officer. In 1904 
she was chosen Recording Secretary of the North Carolina Division 
and served in that capacity for five years, being elected in 1909 Presi¬ 
dent of her Division. This office she held for three years, being the 
only woman in the Division to be elected for three successive terms. 

Mrs. Williams was the North Carolina Director of the Shiloh Monu¬ 
ment Committee all during its life, and has been Chairman of all the 
Constitution Committees appointed in her Division since she joined. In 

1902 Mrs. Williams was Chairman of the U. D. C. General Constitution 
Committee and in 1919 was also a member of the Committee to see 
that State and General Constitutions coincided. During 1917-1919 she 
served as Chairman General Stationery Committee. In 1912 she was 
elected Recording Secretary General, and served for three years. In 
1919 she w T as chosen Registrar General. 

She has always been devoted to the Confederate veterans, and in 

1903 was chosen life sponsor of the Catawba Camp No. 163, U. C. V. 
During the World War Mrs. Williams gave her entire time and energy 
to Red Cross work and looking after the families of her county soldiers. 

Mrs. Williams’ father, General Robert Ransom, was a West Point 
graduate and Captain in the U. S. Army. When news reached him of 
trouble in the South he resigned and hastened to his native State, North 
Carolina, and organized the First North Carolina Cavalry, which he 
and his wife partially equipped, and of which he was made Colonel. 
Later he was transferred to the infantry and rose to be Major-General. 
He was at the first battle of Manassas, in the various ones in the valley 
of Virginia, the Maryland Campaign, Gettysburg, around Richmond, and 
went further within the fortifications at Washington, D. C., than any 
other Confederate officer. He was a warm personal friend of both 
President Davis and General R. E. Lee. At the time of the surrender 
he was ill at his old home in Warrenton, N. C., and was paroled by Gen¬ 
eral Howard. He died in New Bern, N. C., January 14, 1892’. 








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233 


MRS. WYLIE HART TERRY 

Mrs. Clara Wisdom Terry, one of our truest representatives of 
Southern womanhood, comes of a long line of distinguished ancestors, 
being a direct descendent of Francis Lewis, one of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence, and also descended from the Andersons 
of Virginia, of revolutionary fame. 

Clara vVisdom was born in Arkansas County, Arkansas, July 'o, 186 k 
Her parents were P. S. VVisdom and Mrs. uaura Trice Wisdom. Two 
uncles on the mother’s side were in the War between the States, as 
were many other relatives. Her grandparents on both sides, being of 
large means, gave much financial assistance to the Confederacy. 

Her paternal uncle, Col. Dew Moore Wisdom, was a man of marked 
character and distinguished ability. He went into the war as captain 
in the 13th Regiment of Tennessee Infantry and before the close of 
the war became Colonel of the Regiment. He served with General 
Forrest, was in many battles and was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh 
and again at the Battle of Belmont. After the war he was general 
Indian agent and later was Mayor of Muscogee, Okla., whore he died 
November, 1905, aged sixty-nine. 

April 10th, 1883, Miss Wisdom was married to Wylie Hart Terry in 
St. Louis, Mo. He, too, is a devoted Southerner. 

Mrs. Terry now resides at Fayette, Ala., and is registrar of the 
Alabama Division of the U. D. G. During the World War she took 
part in all drives and gave much time, thought and energy to war 
work, ishe was Chairman of Woman’s Work and Chairman of Work 
Room for the Fayette County Red Cross Chapter. She was Chairman 
of the Woman’s Division for Fayette County in the Council of Defense 
and County Chairman of Historical Committee. She is at present 
Chairman or the Fayette County Red Cross Chapter. 

A catalogue of the offices she has held, however, gives but an im¬ 
perfect conception of the gracious influence for good wielded by Mrs. 
Terry. Her keen intelligence and her winning personality have at all 
times been at the service of her country and she holds a high place in 
the esteem and admiration of a wide circle of acquaintance throughout 
her own and other States. 

She has but one child, a son, who is now general manager for a 
large New York firm in Buenos Ayres, Argentina. He was for three 
years vice-consul in Uruguay. 







MRS. SARAH FRANCES FORSYTH 



REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


23o 


MRS. SARAH FRANCES FORSYTH McDANIEL. 

Sarah Frances Forsyth, daughter of Eliza Potter and Ambrose 
Boswell Forsyth, was born December 29, 1840, in Henry County, Georgia, 
receiving her education in Marthasville, now Atlanta, and at Covington 
Female College. 

In 1889 she was married to William Jefferson McDaniel, and into 
the home newly established on Line Street, a site near the present Lowrv 
National Bank, came the call of the South that led the husband to join 
Cobb Legion Cavalry, Company G, commanded by Generals T. R. R. 
Cobb and P. M. B. Young. While serving in this historic command in 
the various campaigns of Northern Virginia, Mr. McDaniel participated 
in the battles around Richmond, second Manassas, Fredericksburg, 
Gettysburg, Spottsylvania and other frequent engagements. 

Her brother, Henry Forsyth, enlisted in the Atlanta Greys, which 
became a part of the Eighth Georgia Regiment, and lost his life at the 
second Manassas at the age of seventeen. 

Her father, Ambrose Boswell Forsyth, was commissioned by Governor 
Joseph E. Brown with the rank of Major in the State Commissary De¬ 
partment. The men away in active service, Mrs. McDaniel, with other 
loyal Penelopes of the Southland, through the Soldiers’ Aid Society, 
plied the domestic arts in a concerted effort to keep Lee’s men fed and 
clothed. 

A captured letter written by her, announcing the Sherman-Jolinstone 
Armistice, saved the town of Bowden from the looting and burning 
ordered by the enemy possessing it. 

The war ended, and home and property destroyed, Mrs. McDaniel 
with her husband sought the peace and quiet of country life in the 
Oothealoga Valley and with a spirit that rose superior to the disinte¬ 
grating effect of war, began to assist in the restoration of her husband’s 
shattered health, in the rebuilding of a lost fortune, and in the estab¬ 
lishment of a new home in which she kept alive for the coming genera¬ 
tion, the ideals of the civilization of the Old South. 

Later, at Calhoun, and at Dalton, Mrs. McDaniel united with the 
U. D. C. ’s, continuing her activities to an advanced age. 

Thus treading life’s pathway, at times fragrant with her flowers, 
at times tuneful with the melody of her song birds, on the 24th day of 
February, 191'9, Mrs. McDaniel heard the call that bade her follow it 
to the land of perennial bloom and song. In a little cemetery overlooking 
Calhoun she was laid to rest by the side of two children. 

So passed a rare member of a rare generation. 





MRS. FLORA McDANIEL PITTS 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


237 


MRS. FLORA McDANIEL PITTS. 


Mrs. Pitts is a descendant of a long line of ancestry foremost in 
affairs of State and patriotic service, and lias in her veins the com¬ 
mingled blood of two families on Georgia’s honor roll—-Forsyth and 
McDaniel. 

Since on tlie preceding page is her mother’s biography with allusions 
to Confederate War records of her father and her maternal ancestors, it 
is necessary in this connection only to add that she is a grand niece of 
the gifted Colonel Charles Addison McDaniel, who fell at Perryville, Ky., 
while bravely leading his regiment in battle. 

The childhood home of Mrs. Pitts was in the beautiful Oothcaloga 
Valley, in the picturesque mountain section of Northwest Georgia. Like 
Ernest in Hawthorn’s story of The Stone Face, she drank into her soul 
the strength and beauty of her surroundings. 

She has lived many years in Calhoun, where the reflections of her 
ideals are seen in the results of numerous humanitarian activities. 
Throughout the surrounding country are grateful hearts that have been 
recipients of her ministrations. 

A charter member of Gordon County Chapter U. D. C., she was its 
first Secretary, afterwards its President. She led in securing from the 
legislature an appropriation for Resaca Confederate Cemetery; is on 
the board appointed by the Governor to accomplish the purpose of this 
appropriation. She takes deep interest in the surviving women of the 
Confederacy. In her home for many years Thanksgiving Day has been 
devoted to their entertainment. 

She is a charter member of the Calhoun Woman’s Club and has 
served in,almost every capacity from Committee Chairman to President. 

From 1912 she was ten years on the Executive Board Georgia Fed¬ 
erated Clubs, ably directing the following departments of work: Civics, 
Roads and Boulevards, Dixie Highway Beautifying, and Better Motion 
Pictures. Her splendid work in these departments won national recog¬ 
nition. 

She gave herself unreservedly as County Chairman of National 
Defense during the World War, organized, and afterwards was Director 
of Gordon County Chapter Red Cross. This Chapter did notable work. 

Her son, Liuetenant Henry McDaniel Pitts, volunteered at the open¬ 
ing of hostilities and saw many months of service in France. 

The character of Mrs. Pitts and the secret of her success as organizer 
and result produced, may be expressed in four words—sincerity, intui¬ 
tion, orginality, enthusiasm. All these qualities she has the gift of 
inspiring in others through a charming but indefinable personality. 

























































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MRS. FRANK J). TRACY. 

Mrs. Frank D. Tracy, nee Miss Frank D. Sampey, was born in Ever¬ 
green, Ala., where she spent her childhood, making her home since that 
time in Pensacola, Florida. Her father, Frank M. Sampey, of French 
Huguenot descent, enlisted in the War between the States in Company 
E of the old Fighting Fourth of Alabama and served four years, taking 
part in over thirty engagements and being twice wounded in action. 
Her mother, Mrs. S. U. Sampey, is Honorary State President of the 
Florida Division U. D. C., and her family furnished many soldiers. 

Mrs. Tracy is a graduate of Judson College, Marion, Ala., has been 
a member of the Shakespeare Club since its organization, and for sev¬ 
eral years was President of the Browning Club of Pensacola. She was 
a teacher for a time and then married Mr. Frank D. Tracy of Pensa 
cola Shipping Company. 

She made a splendid record in war work in the sale of government 
bonds, War Saving Stamps and Red Cross drives, and became an In¬ 
structor in the surgical dressings in the Red Cross. 

Mrs. Tracy is President of the Pensacola Chapter U. D. C., a most 
loyal daughter, faithful and untiring in her work for the U. D. C. She 
recently organized a Children of Confederacy Chapter. During her 
term of office her chapter has had unprecedented growth and success 
and in recognition of her ability has endorsed her for State President. 

She is a member of two important General Committees, ‘ ‘ Southern 
Literature and Endorsement of Books,” and “Jefferson Davis Monu¬ 
ment at His Birthplace in Kentucky.” 

Mrs. Tracy is a woman of unusual executive ability and has the repu¬ 
tation of going over the top in every thing she undertakes. She was 
elected President of the Florida Division U. D. C. at the convention in 
May. 1020. 


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MRS. CHARLES MARCHANT ROBERTS. 

Mrs. Charles Marchant (Lee Ola Rhodes) Roberts is a native of the 
little town of Whiteville, Tenn., where she grew into womanhood and 
married Dr. C. M. Roberts, a successful, cultured physician. In 1900 
they moved to Hot Springs, Ark., where they have since resided and 
where Mrs. Roberts has been prominently identified with every civic 
and philanthropic movement. 

Mrs. Roberts is first and above all else a devoted Christian and 
church worker, being a most faithful, loyal member of the First Bap¬ 
tist Church of Hot Springs. For three years she was the State President 
of the Woman’s Missionary Union, which position she filled acceptably 
and concientiously. 

Since the organization of the Florence Crittenden Home in 1905, 
Mrs. Roberts has been an active member of the Board, serving as 
President for many years and as Treasurer at the present time. She 
and her husband have always been the Home’s most generous supporters. 
Hundreds of unfortunate girls, who have fallen under her influence 
through this work, love her devotedly. 

Mrs. Roberts was the State President of the U. D. C. for two terms. 
No officer ever endeared herself to an organization more than she did 
during that time. She is now serving her second term as Vice President 
of the (General) U. D. C. She had the honor of serving as Matron of 
Honor of her State at the Reunion at Richmond and as Matron of Honor 
in Chief for the Sons of Veterans at Birmingham, and Matron of Honor 
for the South at Tulsa. 

As State Superintendent of the Soldiers and Sailors Department of 
the W. C. T. U., an office which she has held for a number of years, 
she has brought cheer and comfort to a large number of the brave boys 
of land and sea. 

Mrs. Roberts has been prominently connected with the literary, 
musical and civic clubs from their earliest organizations. For two 
years she served as President of the Lotus Club, the oldest in the city. 

During the dark days of the great war she was an invaluable worker 
for her country, untiring and zealous in the help she rendered the Red 
Cross and all other patriotic enterprises. 

A woman of striking appearance and of dignified carriage, Mrs. 
Roberts by her intrinsic purity of heart wins her place in the affec¬ 
tions of all with whom she comes in contact. Her life is spent in helping 
others; no call made upon her for personal service—and there are 
many—goes unanswered. Her life is one which has made the world 
better for having been lived. 








MRS. JOHN A. PERDUE 









REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


245 


MRS. JOHN ALBERT PERDUE. 


Mrs. John A. Perdue was born October 4, 1856, in Milton County, 
Georgia, at “Warsaw,” the old family homestead, a beautiful old time 
home, surrounded by stately oaks and an old fashioned flower garden, 
with the negro quarters in the rear, accommodating at the time of “free¬ 
dom ’ ’ two hundred and sixty slaves. 

Her father was Andrew Jackson Graham, a Kentuckian, and a 
cousin of Governor Graham, of South Carolina. Her mother was Julian 
Howell Graham, daughter of Evan Howell, the head of the Howell 
family, so long associated with Georgia journalism and in fact with 
the entire political history of the State. Her brothers, Major Robert 
Graham, Lieutenant Henry S. Graham, and private Wade Hampton 
Graham, served in the Confederate army until the close of the war. 

But this was not the full extent of the service which this patriotic 
family rendered to the Confederate cause. Her mother played the part 
of a physician in her ministries both to soldiers and civilians, and her 
father furnished supplies of food at all times to the troops commanded 
by Major Graham. Her father also served for a few months under 
Governor Joseph E. Brown near Atlanta, in “Joe Brown’s Melish.” 

Mrs. Perdue’s education was received at Marietta College, W. A. 
Rogers, President; North Georgia Female College, George A. Patillo, 
President, and then at Wesleyan Female College, Macon, where she 
spent two years. At Wesleyan she was a member of the Adelphean 
Society, the oldest secret society for women in the world. 

She was married at Warsaw, the old family home, in 1874, to John 
Albert Perdue, of Atlanta, and this city has been her home since that 
time. 

Mrs. Perdue joined the At’anta Chapter U. D. C., of which she is 
now President, during the administration of Mrs. A. McD. Wilson. Pre¬ 
vious to becoming President she has held the Chairmanship) of the Ways 
and Means Committee, and the office of First Vice-President. She 
is also a prominent member of the Confederated Memorial Association. 

As Mrs. Perdue’s ancestors were famous in Colonial and Revolution¬ 
ary times, it is but natural that she should be also interested in the 
work of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She has held the 
office of Regent of the Piedmont Continental Chapter, D. A. R., and 
later organized the Sarah McIntosh Chapter, of which she was Regent 
for four years, following which the Chapter disbanded, and became 
merged in the Joseph Habersham Chapter. She was Regent of this 
Chapter three years. She was a national member of the Credentials 
Committee I). A. R. 

During the World War she led in the organization of Red Cross work 
in tlie D. A. R. and was President of War Camp Community Service 
in connection with the work of her church at Camp Gordon for two 



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years. She did service work for the hospital at Fort McPherson, giving 
two days each week for eighteen months to this work. 

A list of the other organizations in which Mrs. Perdue has taken 
a prominent and useful part, is an impressive one. She lias always 
been active in the work of the Woman’s Club, being chairman of the 
Arts and Crafts Committee and also of the Committee on Education. 
She was Treasurer for years of the Florence Crittendon Home and an 
active worker in behalf of the Sheltering Arms. She was organizer and 
for several years leader of the New Era Reading Circle, and founder and 
for two years President of the Inman Park Students’ Club. 

No sketch of her life which failed to make mention of her church 
work would be complete. As a member of the First Christian Church 
of Atlanta, she has for years given devoted service to the various 
organizations of this church. 

When the time came to elect a President of the Atlanta Chapter 
U. D. C., in 1920, Mrs. Perdue was unanimously chosen for that office, 
and she is leading the Chapter, as has been her record through the years, 
in progressive and patriotic activities. On July 27, 1920, this Chapter 
presented to a joint session of the Georgia Legislature, then in session, 
a State flag, bearing the arm and insignia of Georgia, with Mrs. Perdue 
in the chair, at the invitatioil of President Olive of the State Senate. 
The presentation speech was made by Eugene R. Black, a brilliant 
member of the Atlanta bar, and the flag was accepted on behalf of the 
State by Governor Hugh Dorsey. 

This imposing scene, which might in one sense be regarded as a 
climax to Mrs. Perdue’s career, would perhaps, however, be more fitly 
characterized as the opening of a career as President of the Atlanta 
Chapter, from which the friends of the Chapter and its President 
expect noteworthy achievements. 














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249 


MRS. LARKIN D. WATSON. 

.Mary Buttrill Watson was born near Griffin, Ga., October 25, 1842. 
Her parents were Asa Buttrill and Mrs. Lucy Manly Buttrill. On the 
father’s side she was the granddaughter of William Buttrill and on the 
mother’s of William Manley. Both her grandsires were soldiers of the 
Revolution. She graduated in I860 from the Synodical College, Griffin, 
Ga., after which she returned to her home at Sylvan Grove, near Jack- 
son, Ga. 

At the beginning of the War Between the States her brother, Joseph 
Buttrill, enlisted at the age of sixteen and soon gave his life for the 
cause. Miss Buttrill accompanied the Butts Volunteers, the first com 
pany to leave Butts County, as far as Forsyth on their departure for 
seat of war. She, with other young ladies of Jackson, Ga., gave con¬ 
certs to raise money for the expenses of the war, made silk flags, and 
in other ways rendered service to the Confederacy. One of these 
flags was presented to the Jefferson Davis Riflemen, the first company 
to go to the war from Jackson. For a year she nursed in her home a 
wounded soldier, B. F. Drake. 

When Sherman’s Army marched through Georgia, General Blair had 
his headquarters in her home. She went on November 17, the day of 
the arrival of Sherman’s troops, to Macon, Ga., as a refugee. After a 
succession of thrilling experiences she returned to her home, to find 
that it had been preserved from destruction by the faithfulness of ser¬ 
vants who repeatedly extinguished the flames that threatened it, but 
that everything in the house had been destroyed, except the furniture 
in her mother’s room. It was characteristic of the changeful times 
that she left for this journey in a carriage, and returned in an ox-cart. 

On November 15, 1866, Miss Buttrill was married to Captain Larkin 
D. Watson, who had been wounded several times at Seven Pines and 
who lost his left leg at Sharpsburg by a shell which killed and wounded 
seventeen men of his company. 

Mrs. Watson is a charter member of the William McIntosh Chapter 
of the D. A. R., and the Larkin D. Watson Chapter of the U. D. C., 
both of Jackson, Ga. The last named organization is named in honor 
of her husband, and she is its honored President. 

The children of Captain and Mrs. Watson are: Mrs. L. A. Matthews, 
of Atlanta, Ga.; Prof. L. D. Watson of Gordon Institute, Barnesville, 
Ga.; Mr. J. R. Watson, Coldwater, Ala., and Mrs. L. L.. O’Kelley, 
Jackson, Ga. 


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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


251 


MRS. JAMES E. HAYES 

Mrs. Louise Frederick Hayes was born at “ Farmingdale,’’ the home¬ 
stead of the Frederick family at Marsliallville, Ga. She is the daugh¬ 
ter of Major James D. Frederick, a Confederate veteran, and of Medora 
A. Keene, a granddaughter of General Jacob Rumph of Revolutionary 
days, and a granddaughter of Dr. Benjamin Keene, the organizer and 
President of the first Medical Society on the Pacific Coast. 

One year after her graduation from Wesleyan College ,Macon, Ga., 
she was married to Janies E. Hays of Montezuma, Ga. They have two 
children, James, Jr., and Louise. 

Mrs. Hayes has held a number of public offices, all of which she 
has filled with dignity and efficiency. She was First Chairman of 
the National Phi Mu Sorority, the official Chaperone for that Sorority 
at conventions held at Norfolk, Memphis and Atlanta, and honorary 
Vice-President for a number of years. 

She served the Phil Cook Chapter of the U. D. C. as Recording Sec¬ 
retary for some time and was five years ago elected State Recording 
Secretary, and still holds this office. 

She was Regent of the Archibald Bulloch Chapter of the D. A. R. 
and afterwards was Assistant Recording Secretary. She was State 
Editor for two years and is now State Chairman of Reciprocity. 

Mrs. Hayes has also been active and influential in the work of the 
Woman’s Clubs. She was President for two years of the Montezuma 
Woman’s Club. She has served as State Treasurer of the Georgia Fed¬ 
eration of Woman’s Clubs for three years and for five years as Vice- 
President-at-Large, which position she still holds. She has been for 
fourteen years a member of the Board of Visitors to the Georgia Normal 
and Industrial School, at Milledgeville, Ga. 

During the World War she filled a number of important and useful 
positions. She was District Chairman in all five Liberty Loans, having 
fifteen counties in her district. She was Chairman for Macon County 
of the Woman’s Committee of the Council of Defense and Chairman of 
the Woman’s Committee for Thrift Stamps for Macon County. She has 
recently been elected a Vice-President of the Stone Mountain Memorial 
Association and President of Georgia Federation of Woman’s Clubs. 


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253 


MRS. JAMES DORSEY FRANKLIN. 

Mrs. Ella Boatright Franklin is the daughter of George E. Boat- 
right and Elizabeth Sessions, representatives of two of the most promi¬ 
nent families of Washington County, Georgia. Mrs. Franklin comes of 
a distinguished ancestry, being a descendant of Captain Barry and Kate 
Barry, who were noted for their patriotic service during the Revolution. 

Mr§. Franklin’s father died when she was very young, but her 
mother gave two sons to the Confederate Army, Captain Benjamin S. 
Boatright and George E. Boatright. A third son, James, who was too 
young to go to war, with the other boys defended the homes as best 
they could during the invasion of Sherman’s Army. 

In 1871 Ella Boatright was married to Captain Janies Dorsey Frank¬ 
lin, of Tennille, who had volunteered as a private but was promoted 
until he became Captain of Company B, Twenty-eighth Georgia In¬ 
fantry. Captain Franklin was with his regiment on the Yorktown line 
and Virginia, fought in the Seven Days’ Battles, at South Mountain, 
Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chaneellorsville, and the campaign about 
Charleston, S. C. 

He was twice wounded, once at Olustee, Fla., and again on the lines 
round Richmond. 

Captain Franklin owned extensive farming interests and was one 
of the most successful planters of Washington County. He and his wife 
generously shared their means with the unfortunate. Though many 
years younger than her husband, Mrs. Franklin shared his patriotism 
and his love for the Confederacy. 

At their home in Tennille in March, 1899, a Chapter of United Daugh¬ 
ters of the Confederacy was organized. In recognition of the gallant 
service of Captain Franklin the Chapter was named the J. D. Franklin 
Chapter U. D. C. Captain and Mrs. Franklin generously gave a building 
to be used as a Chapter House. 

Mrs. Franklin has worked with tireless zeal for the success of every 
enterprise of the Chapter. She has served as Chapter President and a 
few years ago was elected Honorary President for Life. She took the 
lead in work for the Confederate Memorial Fountain, erected by the 
Chapter. 

She is prominent as a member of the D. A. R. and the Woman s 
Club, and takes an active interest in all work for the benefit of the 
town. She is also a zealous worker in the Baptist Church, of which she 
is a member. 

The children of Captain and Mrs. Franklin are George H., James 
Dorsey, Samuel O. (who died a few months ago), Mrs. Charles Melton, 
of Baxley, and Mrs. John E. Melton, of Lakeland, Fla. 


















MRS. J. R. MOBLEY 





REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


255 


MRS. J. R. MOBLEY 

Mrs. J. R. Mobley, whose maiden name was Josephine Robinson, is 
the granddaughter of Captain John Webb, celebrated in the annals of 
the South as a soldier and philanthropist. He served in the war of 
1812 under General MaComb. He was wounded in this war. 

After the close of the war of 1812 he settled in Newton County, 
Georgia, and was a planter and manufacturer. 

When the Civil War began he equipped a Company with uniforms, 
horses, saddles and bridles. He manufactured the grey cloth for soldiers’ 
uniforms without charge, and took care of many widows and orphans. 

Captain Webb belonged to a distinguished family of Virginia who 
came over from England, which, I should judge—from its recurring in 
pages of history—maintained an honorable position in centuries back. 
Mrs. Mobley is in direct lineage of the Trockmortons, Belfields, Bot- 
hursts, Walkers, Meriwethers—all prominent families who came from 
England and settled in Virginia. 

Captain Webb’s brother, who was a statesman and a lawyer, was 
author of the “Lone Star of Texas.” 

Mrs. Mobley’s father, Janies H. Robinson, presented himself for 
service in the Civil War but was rejected on account of ill health and 
sent home to take care of the women and children. He did material 
service to aid the Confederacy. His oldest son, however, the late A. 
M. Robinson, gave two years of service although he was only sixteen 
years of age when he entered. 

Thus brought into close relationship with many of the loyal patriots 
of the South, the subject of this sketch inherited the spirit of patriot¬ 
ism that prompted them to make any sacrifice, however grea$, for the 
welfare of their country. She came into the Atlanta Chapter, U. D. C., 
Atlanta, Ga., Chapter in 1900; has been a most enthusiastic member, 
marking the beginning of her work with strict attention to the duties 
she saw at hand. 

She was for four years the Chairman of the Soldiers’ Home Com¬ 
mittee, and during that time, with her wonderful committee, did grand 
things for those dear old veterans. She saw that they had weekly 
entertainment, and always an enjoyable picnic in the spring time. They 
were also provided with appropriate entertainment and “Santa Claus” 
at Christmas time. 

Then she was elected Second Vice-President for two years^ then 
Treasurer, and served in that capacity for nearly five years, and then 
was elected First Vice-President. She was asked to take the Presidency, 
but thrice declined because she loved the work more than honors and 
felt she could do more in the ranks than as a leader. 

She has been acting as Chairman of the Floral Committee for a 
number of years. It was she who presented the first large flag to the 
Chapter. 

On account of ill health her activities have been minimized but not 
her love and loyalty, for there is not a truer or more loyal “Daughter” 
than she. 



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MRS. WILLIAM J. HARLEY. 

Mrs. Lena Wofford Harley is the daughter of General William 
Tatum Wofford and his wife, who was Julia Adelaide Dwight. Her 
father, who was from Cartersville, Ga., was a prominent lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman from the Seventh District and served as a Captain 
of Cavalry in the war with Mexico and as General in the War Between 
the States. He was a descendant of Colonel William Wofford, one of 
the heroes of King’s Mountain in the war of 1776. 

Her mother, Julia Adelaide Dwight, was a daughter of Dr. Samuel 

B. Dwight, son of Rebecca Marion, a niece of General Frances Marion. 
Julia Dwight’s mother was a Miss Jemison, a granddaughter of General 
Jacob Rumph of Revolutionary fame. Through her mother, Mrs. Harley 
is descended from the Rumphs, Marions, and Dwights of South Carolina, 
through her father she is a descendant of the Woffords of Maryland 
and the Tatums of Virginia. 

Mrs. Harley was a charter member of the U. D. C. in Sparta, and 
has always worked with indefatigable zeal. As President of the Chap¬ 
ter she showed marked executive ability and accomplished things in 
war relief, care of Confederate men and women and education. During 
her administration the Chapter placed a coping, planted flowers and 
beautified an attractive park which surrounds the Confederate monu¬ 
ment. 

Mrs. Harley served as State Chairman to place portraits of Lee and 
Davis in schools and made a splendid success of this work, as with 
everything she undertakes. She helps with all enterprises of the U. D. 

C. , working for the preservation of records of the deeds of our heroic 
dead and the care of those left with us. 

She has represented her Chapter in many State and general con¬ 
ventions and always reflects credit upon her city and organization. 

She was a leader in all patriotic work during the World War, as 
member of the Council of Defense and Red Cross in addition to all 
U. D. C. activities. 

She is a member of the Woman’s Club and Civic League, of the 
Confederated Southern Memorial Association and organized the D. A. R. 
Chapter in Sparta. 

Mr. and Mrs. Harley have a beautiful suburban home, Woodside 
Farm, which stands upon the crest of a hill. Stately stone pillars 
mark the entrance to the grove of magnificent shade trees which sur¬ 
round the handsome home. Theirs is an open door, and visitors to this 
home can never say that the famed hospitality of the Old South is a 
thing of the past. The delightful spirit of the Old reigns amidst all the 
modern up to date comforts of the New South. 


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MRS. ROBERT M. HERRON 





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259 


MRS. ROBERT M. HERRON. 

Mrs. Willie Davis Herron was born and reared in Dalton, Georgia. 
She was educated at the Dalton Female College, in which institution 
she earned not only a reputation for scholarship but as a leader of 
college life and activities. 

She has been prominently identified with the clubs of her home 
town, and has always taken an active part in all matters pertaining to 
the social and civic life of the community. 

She is a charter member of both the local chapter of the United 
Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revo¬ 
lution and a prominent member of the Losche Club, one of the oldest 
literary clubs in the State. 

She has served as regent of the Governor John Milledge Chapter 
Daughters of the American Revolution, and served several terms as 
President of the Bryan M. Thomas Chapter, United Daughters of the 
Confederacy. As one of the early Presidents she left the impress of 
her personality upon the organization. She served and did much by her 
ability and farsighted wisdom toward making it the powerful organ¬ 
ization it now 7 is, it being one of the largest chapters in the State and 
a great power in the community for preserving a record of the deeds 
of the past and teaching them to the coming generation. 

The chapter this year reached its twentieth anniversary and she, as 
President, arranged the program for the interesting exercises, which 
showed, not alone the growth, but the splendid work of the organization. 

She has unbounded love for the work, and an inheritance of cour¬ 
age and patriotism, being a daughter of the late Hon. Warren R. Davis, 
a man who was conspicuous for his bravery during his service in the 
Confederate Army. 

However, club work has not been an all absorbing pursuit with Mrs. 
Herron and she has never found it necessary to neglect her home. She 
is the mistress of a happy, hospitable home, the wife of Robert M. 
Herron, and the mother of one son. 

When war brought its unparalleled suffering, her patriotism and 
energy was fired immediately and through the medium of the Red 
Cross, much of her time was given to the war requirements. Her loyal 
service was recognized and she was made Director of the Woman’s Work 
for Whitfield County, and by her willingness and tireless work helped 
to make the war work of this county a notable one. 

While she is descended through many lines of Revolutionary and 
Confederate ancestry, she is also the mother of a son who did his part 
in the World War. Her only son, Lieutenant R. M. Herron*, Jr., vol¬ 
unteered as soon as America entered the war and was graduated from 
the first officers’ training camp. He entered the aviation service and 
qualified as pilot and instructor, serving in these capacities until the 
end of the war. 

As a Christian woman, a devoted wife and mother, a loyal friend, an 
able leader, she exemplifies in her life and character the best tra¬ 
ditions of her Southern ancestry. 






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MRS. .1. C. FOSTER 





REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. J. C. FOSTER, 

Mrs. J. L. Foster, First Vice-President of the Jefferson Davis 
Chapter U. D. C., of Houston, Texas, was born at Humboldt, Tennessee. 
Her father, Mr. Andrew Park Foster, was a proud South Carolinian; 
he gloried in the courage and loyalty of his native State, the first to 
secede when their State rights were interfered with. His devotion 
and loyalty to the Confederacy was one of his beautiful characteristics, 
and after that awful struggle from 1861 to 1865, he spent his long and 
useful life in helping to build up the once beautiful Southland, which 
had been so sadly devastated. 

Mrs. Foster’s mother was Miss Sibella Johnson of Columbia, Tenn. 
She was the daughter of a wealthy Southern planter, who aided the 
cause of the Confederacy in every way possible. 

At the beginning of the war Mrs. Foster’s brother, William Houston 
Foster, enlisted in the Confederate Army, and served the four years, 
from the beginning until the surrender. He was Sergeant Major 
of the 12th Tennessee Regiment, and made a record of bravery and 
eifieiency that was not surpassed by any. 

Mrs. Foster’s husband, Col. J. C. Foster, is a Confederate soldier. 
He was born in Spartanburg, S. C.; he enlisted in 1862 at the age of 
sixteen years, not being able to enlist the first year of the war be¬ 
cause of his youth. He served in a South Carolina Regiment. He is 
now Commander of the Dick Bowling Camp, United Confederate Vete¬ 
rans of Houston, Texas. He is also Lieutenant Colonel on the staff 
of General E. W. Kirkpatrick of Waco, Texas. 

Mrs. Foster is a member of the Southern Methodist church and has 
been since her early childhood. 




MRS. N. D. DENSON 






REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


263 


MRS. N. D. DENSON. 

Mrs. Denson, who is one of the truly representative women of Ala¬ 
bama, is a daughter of John M. Vernon, who was born in Upson County, 
Georgia, December 23, 1835. He died at Cusseta, Ala., January 26, 191J. 
He enlisted in the Confederate army as a member of the Fourteenth 
Alabama Regiment. At the close of the war he was captured by Federal 
troops and carried to Macon, Ga., as a prisoner. Being discharged from 
there without money and with the remnants of an old suit of clothes, 
he was compelled to walk from Macon, Ga., to his home in Cusseta, Ala. 

Mrs. Denson was -a charter member of the Owen Iv. McLemore 
Chapter U. D. C., organized at Lafayette, Ala.; she was its first His¬ 
torian and later its President. During her term of office she moved 
to Opelika, Ala., where she now resides, and her membership was trans¬ 
ferred to the Robert E. Lee Chapter. Soon afterwards she was elected 
President of this Chapter, and also made Chairman of the local Red 
Cross. 

As she was in position to know and feel the needs of the soldiers 
in the Great War, she led the members of the U. D. C. in doing mudi 
work in co-operation with the Red Cross Chapter. Hundreds of sweaters, 
helmets and other useful articles were knitted and sent to the soldiers 
in France. Nor did they forget the boys of the sixties. Boxes were 
sent to them and the laurel wreath was always in evidence when they 
were gently borne to their last resting place. 

Mrs. Denson is now Chaplain for the Alabama Division U. D. 0. 
having been elected to this office at the U. D. C. convention which met 
in Gadsden, Ala., in May, 1919. She is held in high honor by her co¬ 
workers in the State of Alabama, and in other States where she is 


known. 






MRS. RICHARD SYKES 

(MOTHER OF MRS. CHAS. P. RICE) 
















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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. CHARLES F. RICE. 

Mrs. Charles F. Rice, long and we 1 known in the social life and 
patriotic societies of Atlanta, was reared in Columbus, Miss. She was 
the daughter of Dr. Richard L. Sykes and Georgia Strong, being de¬ 
scended from some of the most prominent and distinguished families 
of Georgia and Virginia. 

She was married December 4, 1890, in Columbus, Miss., to Charles 
F. Rice, member of a prominent pioneer family of Atlanta, Ga. 

By her loyalty to high ideals formed in her early home associations 
with kinsmen distinguished in the service of the Confederacy, she 
helped to shape the policies of the early period of the Daughters of 
the Confederacy. Her interest grew in the cause and she gave herself 
freely to the work of the Children of the Confederacy. 

Her record of two years as Recording Secretary and two years as 
Second Vice-President was one of devoted service. She was two years 
State Chairman of the Children of the Confederacy and from 1897 to 
1904 was Directress of Julia Johnson Chapter. Upon her retirement 
the Chapter presented her a Confederated Badge. She wrote and read 
the Constitution and By-Laws of the Children of the Confederacy So¬ 
cieties in Georgia at the Rome convention October, 1898. 

Mrs. Rice was a charter member of the Atlanta Woman’s Club, a 
member of the Memorial Association, the Daughters of 1812 and a 
charter member serving as Historian of the Georgia Society of the 
Colonial Daughters of America. 

For more than a decade she has served the Daughters of the Amer¬ 
ican Revolution in the following capacities: Corresponding Secretary, 
Secretary of the Board, Chairman of the Board, First Vice-Regent and 
Regent of Atlanta Chapter. 

She was four years President of the Dolly Madison Chapter Children 
of American Revolution and two years State Chairman. 

As “War Regent” of Atlanta Chapter 1917-1918, Mrs. Rice gave 
best evidence of her ability and devotion to a great historic cause by 
her untiring effort in the Chapter’s work. At the close of her regency 
the Chapter tendered her a complimentary luncheon at the Capital City 
Club, January 14, 1919, as an expression of their love and appreciation. 
A handsome silver loving cup was presented her with an appropriate 
toast. 

Mrs. Rice continues her work with unflagging zeal and will always 
take her place in the forefront of those who are forward looking and 
hopeful for the destiny of our people. 

Mrs. Richard L. Sykes, the mother of Mrs. Rice, was one of the 
belles of the Sixties, and a crown and wreath of flowers presented to 
her years ago for her beauty is still preserved by Mrs. Rice. 




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269 


MRS. J. L. McWHIRTER. 

Mrs. Hattie Fripp McWhirter, ex-President of the South Carolina 
Division U. D. C., and one of the most prominent of the South Carolina 
Daughters of the Confederacy, is the daughter of Alviro and Elizabeth 
Fripp, of Beaufort, S. C., where she was born. Her father was a Con¬ 
federate veteran and served with honor as quartermaster in the Con¬ 
federate army during the entire four years of the war. 

She is the wife of Mr. J. L. McWhirter, of Jonesville, S. C., She be¬ 
came a member of the U. D. C. in 1902. She was among the first women 
who led in the forming of the South Carolina Division of the U. D. C., 
of which she is a faithful and devoted member and in which she has 
held many important offices, among them that of Vice-President for 
four years, and Division President for two years. She was for eleven 
years President of her home chapter, the “John Hames.’' She has 
served as South Carolina Director in charge of the work of erecting 
a monument to Jefferson Davis at his birthplace in Kentucky. She 
has also served on many important State and general U. D. C. com¬ 
mittees. 

Mrs. McWhirter is a member of the D. A. R. and several other 
women’s organizations, in all of which she has always played an in¬ 
fluential part. 




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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


271 


MRS. W. L. HINES. 

The subject of our sketch, only daughter of Lieutenant R. J. Wilsou 
and Mary Virginia Harris, was born at Athens, Ga., May 27, 1857. Her 
father, a member of Cobb’s Georgia Legion, severely wounded at Chan- 
eellorsville, was honorably discharged at Ringgold, Ga., 1864. She also 
had three uncles in the Confederate Army, Captain J. F. Wilson, Ser¬ 
geant W. J. Wilson and Robert B. Harris. 

In 1881 she was married to Mr. W. L. Hines of Calhoun, Ga., where 
she now lives in a home whose stately columns and beautiful grounds 
are expressions of her inherent love of old time Southern ideals. 

Love’s settings may vary, but love? 

It’s the same as long as the hearts 
Of true women beat on. 

‘ ‘ There are pioneer lives that blaze a way where highway never 
ran.” Such a life is hers. Before the Federation of Woman’s Clubs 
came into existence she was blazing the way for civic righteousness 
and beauty. She organized the Calhouu Woman’s Club, and it was 
her dreams and schemes that brought the parks, unique Log Cabin 
Club House, fountains, and other crowning glories of which her town 
and county are justly proud. 

A home loving wife and mother, Mrs. Hines knows how to be a 
friend. Using her musical gifts she has assisted in school and other 
entertainments through which lives of men and women were enriched 
and inspired by her services. As a state-appointed guardian of Resaca 
Confederate Cemetery, she has through earnest efforts helped to secure 
an appropriation with which to beautify the bivouac of the dead, and 
provides an appropriate commemoration of their valor on each returning 
anniversary of their last-fought battle. 

Mrs. Hines has given her loyal service to the keeping of Resaca 
cemetery, where many Confederate soldiers sleep, and each Memorial 
Day adds another wreath of faithful service to her memory. 








MRS. ROBERTA HARRIS WELLS 






REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


273 


MRS. ROBERTA HARRIS WELLS. 

Roberta Harris Wells spent her young life at the ancestral home 
1 ‘ Harriston, ” near W atkinsville, Ga. Here she was married in 1856, 
to Dr. Thomas M. Christopher, an eminent practitioner of Walton 
County. Three years later she became a widow, but remained on the 
large plantation with her two little sons, under the protection of her 
faithful negro slaves. 

During this period she sought “surcease of sorrow” in unselfish and 
untiring devotion to the Southern cause. Her hospitable home was a 
haven of rest to many a soldier boy. The gratitude of one of the brave 
fellows was expressed in verse on the marble top of the bureau in the 
room he occupied, in verse, because poetry is the language of the soul; 
on the marble because in those days of deprivation even writing paper 
was a scarce commodity. A small incident? Yes, but it made a lasting 
impression on the plastic mind of a little girl, who is now one of Geor¬ 
gia’s noble women. 

In November, 1864, Mrs. Christopher became the wife of Lieutenant 
R. J. Wilson of Athens, Georgia, whose death occurred in 1881. At 
Athens she was a valued member of the Ladies’ Memorial Association, 
whose activities immediately after the War Between the States were 
devoted to caring for the sick and wounded soldiers who were in tem¬ 
porary hospitals maintained by the citizens of the town. With zealous 
enthusiasm Mrs. Wilson entered into all undertakings of the associa¬ 
tion from joining in Memorial Day exercises, to the work of erecting 
a monument dedicated to the Confederate dead. Wherever Mrs. Wilson 
made her home she became an active member of all church, patriotic, 
and social activities. She was one of the original members of the 
Woman’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 
at Calhoun, Georgia, and was its first President. 

In 1896 Mrs. Wilson was married to Major George W. Wells, a vet¬ 
eran of the Southern army. Soon after this they moved to “Harriston,” 
the home of her fathers, where she gently fell asleep July 2'8, 1913. Al¬ 
though past the allotted span—three score years and ten—she never 
grew old. Death found the mature grain pure gold and the sunset like 
the morning, bright and clear. 

In appreciation of her interest in United Daughters of the Confed¬ 
eracy, and in honor of her many sterling qualities, the ladies of Watkins- 
ville gave their local organization the name of “Roberta Harris Wells 
Chapter” and elected her their first president. 


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MRS. H. II. TIFT 










REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


275 


BESSIE WILLINGHAM TIFT. 

Bessie Willingham Tift, daughter of Thomas Henry Willingham and 
Cecelia Matilda Baynard, was born on Smyrna Plantation, Allendale, 
South Carolina, June 30, 1860, the year of the outbreak of the War Be¬ 
tween the States. Therefore, her baby years were spent amid the 

scenes of civil conflict and her girlhood in the trying days of recon¬ 

struction. Her father, Colonel Thomas Henry Willingham, rendered a 
distinguished and unique service for the Confederacy during the war. 
Although he was eager to join his four brothers who were in active 
service, he was chosen, because of his chivalry and gallantry, to serve 
as protector for the women and children. 

The family refugeed to Mitchell County, Georgia, during the last 
year of the War Between the States. They later moved to Dougherty 
County, to a plantation four miles from Albany, where Bessie Willing¬ 
ham’s girlhood days were spent. At an early age she evinced that piety 
which was to strongly mark her whole life. At the age of ten she 

joined the Missionary Baptist Church at Albany, and was baptised by 

Dr. W. H. Whitsett, the pastor. She first attended the little country 
school in the community and later drove with her sister and two 
brothers daily to the Albany schools. She was prepared at Dr. R. D. 
Mallory’s Academy for the Sophomore class at Wesleyan, where she re¬ 
mained a year and a half. Here she was a member of the Adelphean 
Society. She later matriculated at Monroe (now Bessie Tift) College, 
where she was graduated in 1878. 

After graduation she lived in Albany, Georgia, up to the time of 
her marriage to Mr. Henry Harding Tift, which happy event took place 
June 25, 1885. Since then she has made her home in Tifton, which 
was founded by Mr. Tift, and which has been the scene of her noblest 
life work. She has three sons, Henry Harding Tift, Jr., Thomas Wil¬ 
lingham Tift, and Amos Chapman Tift, all of whom are a credit to her 
faithful training. 

Mrs. Tift has traveled extensively in this country and Europe, and 
her life has been devoted to her church, to missions, her country and 
to Christian education. It w T as in token of appreciation of her loyalty 
to and labor of love for her Alma Mater that Georgia Baptists placed 
upon her brow the crown of honor, when the name Monroe was changed 
to Bessie Tift College. 

Mrs. Tift has been President of the Twentieth Century Library Club 
at Tifton for fourteen years; was Vice-President of the Georgia Fed¬ 
eration of Women’s Clubs during Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb’s administra¬ 
tion; is Director for Life in the Georgia Federation of Woman’s Clubs; 
was five years President of the Tifton Woman’s Christian Temperance 
Union; she is a member of the Thronateeska Chapter Daughters of the 
American Revolution and a charter member of the Charlotte Carson 
Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. 
















MRS. JAMBS F. WILEY 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


277 


MRS. JAMES F. WILEY. 

Mrs. James F. Wiley, who is President of the James M. Gresham 
Chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy at Social Circle, Geor¬ 
gia, is a native of that town and one of the charter members of this 
chapter. Before her marriage in 1912 to Mr. J. F. Wiley, a prominent 
merchant and planter, she was Miss Nelle Mobley, second daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. James Ammons Mobley. She is descended from two 
loyal Confederate veterans, Dr. David A. Gibbs of Social Circle and Mr. 
James L. Mobley of Jersey, Walton County. 

Mrs. Wiley finished her education at Brenau College, Gainesville, 
Georgia, where she specialized in music. While she is a devoted mother 
and homemaker, having two attractive children, James F. Wiley, Jr., 
aged five years, and Martha Gibbs Wiley, aged two, she finds time for 
much patriotic work—being an active member of the John Clark 
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of which she is His¬ 
torian, and a faithful worker in the Red Cross Chapter. 





MRS. EMILY WAKEFIELD WICKLIFFE 


‘THE HEROINE OF THE STORY OF THE WAR. 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


279 


A TRUE STORY OF THE WAR 

BY ALMA WICKLIFFE AIKEN. 

We lived on a plantation in upper South Carolina. At daybreak one 
morning in the Sixties a loud ‘‘Hullo” was heard at our front gate. 
A trusted servant answered, and found that the visitor was a man 
from my father’s company, home on a short furlough. 

He brought a letter from my father which told of his love and 
anxiety for my mother and her babies and also mentioned the fact 
that he had lost his overcoat and asked if it were possible for her to 
send him one by the bearer of the letter. There was no time to be lost 
as the man -was to leave again in tw r enty-four hours. 

My mother assembled her devoted slaves, and told them the situa¬ 
tion. They promptly responded: “Yes, Missus, we sho’ will send 
Marse William dat obercoat.” 

Two men were dispatched to shear the sheep, my mother following 
on her saddle horse, “Lucy.” With one bag of the fleecy wool thrown 
over the saddle, she galloped back home. The wool was washed by 
the faithful women servants and dyed in walnut dye. The dye and 
pots of indigo were always in readiness on plantations in those days, 
as well as looms with the warp already threaded. 

Log fires burned brightly in the huge fire places of the work house. 
The problem now was to get the wool dry enough to card and spin into 
yarn for the weavers. To the young wife who was waiting it seemed 
that the w T ool held all the waters of the sea. In reality it dried very 
quickly in that heated room, supervised by those experienced in the art. 

Now the wool w r as ready for the carders, who, seated in low chairs, 
began turning out the rolls with a merry “scrush, scrush. ” The spin¬ 
ners made the wdieels hum and in a short time enough wool was ready 
for the weavers to begin w T ork. 

As soon as enough was woven my mother laid her pattern on the 
cloth which was still in the loom, and cut the sleeves. She began to 
sew and the weavers went on weaving 

Swift willing fingers plied the stitches to the busy click-clack of 
the loom. It was a race between the weavers and the sew T ers, for a 
friend had come in to help my mother, and to bear her company through 
the night. Would the coat be ready by morning? Fresh candles were 
lighted, and still the race went on. 

At last the big brass buttons adorned with the raised Palmetto Tree 
were sewed fast to fit the tedious button-holes. There were no mis¬ 
givings now about the coat being finished. 

As the sun came up, the young wife, a halo crowning her fair young 
face, walked wearily under the shadows of the aged oaks to the “big 
house” with Hie completed coat across her arm. 

She found the babies snug and warm in “Mammy’s” care. As sho 
stooped to carress them, another “Hullo” was heard at the gate. A 
satisfied smile crossed her face, for the overcoat was ready to be sent 
to her loved husband at the front. 





MRS. SAM WILSON 



REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


281 


MRS. SAM T. WILSON. 

Mrs. Wilson was elected President of the Marion County Chapter, 
U. D. C., in December, 1918. 

She is daughter of Jacob M. Hughes, a Confederate soldier. When 
the war first began he was under age, but possessing such heroic and 
warlike spirit and eagerness to fight to defend the cause for which the 
South was at war, he volunteered October 1, 1861, and joined Company 
H, 17th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, infantry. 

Early in July, 1862, he was taken sick and his health continued to 
fail, and in November, 1862, was honorably discharged from service 
and returned to his home near Bamburg, S. C. 

After remaining home about seven months his health had improved 
and, still eager to fight for the cause of the Confederacy, he again 
volunteered, joining Company B, Kirk's Squadron, Cavalry, and re¬ 
mained in service, participating in various engagements until General 
Lee surrendered ancl the war closed. 

Mrs. Wilson was married February 10, 1910, to Hon. Sam T. Wil¬ 
son, of Buena Vista, Georgia, which has been her residence place ever 
since. 

Mrs. Wilson is devoted to the U. D. C. work, and her executive ability 
is guided at all times by the highest sense of duty, fairness and im¬ 
partiality. 

She is cordial and sincere and does all in her power to serve the 
interest of the organization of which she is the head, to the best of 
her ability, and measures up to the standard of a true woman. 

Besides doing such splendid U. D. C. work, Mrs. Wilson has been a 
faithful Red Cross worker, especially during the period of the World 
War, and she is always ready to do her part for the uplift of humanity 
and the nation. 







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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


283 


MISS VIRGINIA DURANT. 

Miss Virginia DuRant, of French and English extraction, belongs 
to the South’s first families. Her ancestors were pioneers, establishing 
colonies in Virginia, and then in Maryland, thence to South Carolina. 
Her many times great grandfather on the maternal side was the first 
settler in the region of wnat is now the city of Marion, S. C. 

During the War between the States her father, William Langdon 
DuRant, though only a boy of fourteen, volunteered in February, 1864, 
in Company E, Gregg’s First South Carolina Regiment, was promoted 
to Corporal the same year. Though courting danger he was still un¬ 
scathed, except for a wound through the palm of the hand, at the close 
of the war. 

Losing their home by fire the family moved in 1902 to Thomasville, 
Ga. Since the death of her aunt, Mrs. Virginia DuRant Young, for 
whom she was named, Miss DuRant has resided in Fairfax, S. C., taking 
a leading part in all community work. She was one of the charter 
members when the Daughters of the Confederacy was organized in 1910; 
has served as President since 1913; organized Magnolia Chapter C. of C. 

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1914, and has served several years on State Committee C. of C., Sec¬ 
retary-Treasurer of Civic League, Secretary of Library Association, Sec¬ 
retary of Fairfax Branch A. R. C., working untiredly for the Red Cross, 
sewing, serving as Chairman of drives, conscientiously doing her bit for 
the cause of justice and humanity. 





MRS. FRANK TILLAR 



















REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


285 


MRS. FRANK TILLAR. 

Honor is the legitimate reward of talent, and when added to merit 
it hangs like a graceful robe on its wearer, imparting dignity and com¬ 
manding love and respect. Mrs. Frank Tillar of Little Rock, Ark., is 
justly entitled to an honored place among the prominent women of 
the Daughters of the Confederacy. 

Her father, A. C. Holmes, served under General Early throughout 
the war. Although preferring the fighting line he was placed in the 
Construction Corps, and built forts and bridges at Arkansas Post and 
other points in Arkansas), Louisiana and Texas. Nine brothers of her 
father fought through the war, one killed in battle. 

Living most of her life in a plantation town where there was no U. 
D. C. Chapter, it was not until her home was in Little Rock that she 
became a Daughter (1914). Her executive ability and qualifications 
as a leader were soon discovered, and she 'was elected President of 
Memorial Chapter (the largest and oldest in Arkansas) in 1916. Her 
administration of three years was the most successful financially, 
since the organization of the Chapter. More than $3,000 was made and 
used for various patriotic, charitable and educational purposes. After 
the establishment of Camp Pike especial attention was given soldiers, 
hospitals and Hostess House there. Victrola, records, sewing machine, 
growing and cut flowers, hundreds of books and 100 Christmas boxes 
sent to soldiers at Camp Pike and Camp Beauregard, $150 and about 
2,000 garment and knitted articles for Red Cross, supported 30 French 
orphans, assisted in support of bed in American hospital in France, 
sold $33,000.00 Liberty bonds, $3,000.00’ War Stamps,, is a brief sum¬ 
mary of war work under her leadership. She organized first Red Cross 
Chapter in the State, Chairman of War Relief Committee Arkansas 
Division, and through her efforts Arkansas was the first State to endow 
two beds at American Hospital, Nueilly, France. 

She was a member of Confederate Council of Little Rock since its 
organization, and with the assistance of the Council she had the unfair 
histories in the schools supplanted by fair ones, presented Jefferson 
Davis’ “Rise and Fall of the Confederacy,” “South in the Building 
of the Nation,” and Miss Rutherford’s “The South in History and 
Literature” to Little Rock High and Junior High Schools. 

Her visits to Omar Weaver Camp and Confederate Home with gifts 
and loving attention gained for her many friends among the veterans, 
and she was appointed to places of honor at U. C. V. reunions; at Bir¬ 
mingham, Matron of Honor; at Richmond, Assistant Matron of Honor; 
at Memphis, Flag Bearer on General Gibbon’s staff; at Jacksonville, 
Fla., Matron of Honor; and last year at Tulsa, Okla., Matron of Honor 
for General J. S. Carr of Virginia. The last courtesy was through the 
fact that her ancestors were Virginians, and many of her beloved dead 
are buried at Richmond. 

She has attended all State and general conventions, thus keeping up 
her splendid enthusiasm. 





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MRS. WILLIAM HANSEN 










REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


287 


MRS. WILLIAM HANSEN. 

Mrs. William Hansen, President of the U. D. C., Houston, Texas, 
was born at Wharton, Texas. Her father was Captain J. D. Whitten. 
He could not enlist in the regular army because his health would not 
permit it; but was made Captain of the “Home Guards,” and served 
his country faithfully in this capacity. After the war he was a Senator 
in the Texas Legislature. 

Mrs. Hansen is one of Texas’ most efficient and enthusiastic Daugh¬ 
ters; she has had years of experience in U. D. C. work; she served as 
President of the Orrin M. Roberts Chapter of Houston for eleven years, 
and she has been President of the Jefferson Davis Chapter for three 
years. She has served on many important committees, and has been a 
delegate to the annual and general conventions. She is capable and 
willing and has been faithful to every duty. 





MISS WILLIE FORT WILLIAMS 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


289 


MISS WILLIE FORT WILLIAMS. 

Miss Willie Fort Williams is the only daughter of Hon. and Mrs 
William Fort Williams, of Atlanta,, Ga., where she was born; grand¬ 
daughter on the father’s side of Hon. James E. Williams, Mayor of 
Atlanta for three terms, immediately after the War of ’61-’65, when 
the office was one of great responsibility and danger, as it covered 
the perilous period of reconstruction, and grand-daughter on the moth¬ 
er’s side of General and Mrs. Samuel Daviess Blackburn, of Bowling 
Green, Ky. 

She joined the Ladies’ Memorial Association when she was three 
years old, and has worked in the banner association all her life, which 
makes it easy to understand why she is now a loyal and devoted Daugli 
ter of the Confederacy and fitting herself so ably for leadership in 
future years. She is now Corresponding Secretary of the Ladies’ Me¬ 
morial Association, of which till recently she was the youngest member. 
During the reunion in Atlanta in 1919 she was Page of the C. S. M. A. 
She now holds the position of President of the Junior Memorial Asso¬ 
ciation of Atlanta, a well deserved honor and a responsibility for which 
she is so well fitted. May there be many more Daughters of the Con¬ 
federacy who will bring up their daughters to fill just such positions 
of honor and responsibility. 


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MRS. HARRIET TUCKER HAWKINS. 

Mrs. Hawkins, who for some years preceding her death was Presi¬ 
dent of the U. D. C. Chapter at Stockbridge, Ga., and its guiding spirit, 
had been imbued with the spirit of patriotism from her earliest child¬ 
hood. She was born near Marietta, Ga., February 28, 1846, the daughter 
of Hon. Crawford Tucker and Mrs. Virginia Reed Tucker. When the 
War between the States came on she shared eagerly and gladly the 
hardships and self denials of the time, donning the homespun dress and 
in other ways the true spirit of the Southern patriot. 

April 18, 1886, she was married to Charles Augustus Hawkins, of 
Cherokee County, Ga., wdio had served through the four years of the 
war and was with Lee at Appomattox. 

Mrs. Hawkins was a charter member and an officer in the St. Louis, 
Mo., Chapter of the organization known as the Daughters of Confed¬ 
erate Officers. This, the Margaret A. McClure Chapter, was the first 
chapter of the organization in the United States. The general organ¬ 
ization was afterwards merged into the Daughters of the Confederacy. 
She was President for several terms of the Robert E. Lee Chapter, U. 
D. C., at Marshall, Mo. 

In 1906 Mrs. Hawkins removed to Stockbridge, Ga. Here she or¬ 
ganized the Joe Wheeler Chapter, U. D. C., and was its President until 
the time of her death, when her daughter, Mrs. A. H. Swann, took up 
the work and is now President. Another evidence of the high esteem 
in which she was held was when the Harriet Tucker Chapter of the 
Children of the Confederacy was named in her honor. 

Mrs. Hawkins died January 31st, 1920, after having been an in¬ 
valid for twelve years. Her devotion to the Confederacy was mani¬ 
fested to the end of her life for she was wearing at the last a Con¬ 
federate badge, a Confederate flag was on the wall in her room at the 
hospital and a tiny Confederate flag was found in her purse. 

She was a devoted member of the Presbyterian church and was a 
moving spirit in the organization of churches of that faith at Avon¬ 
dale, Ala., and at Stockbridge, Ga. Her son, Mr. Horace P. Hawkins, 
was an elder in this church. 







MRS. J. W. WILKINSON 


REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


295 


MRS. J. W. WILKINSON. 

Mrs. Minnie McLemore Wilkinson, one of the truly representative 
daughters of the wonderful state of Texas, was the daughter of B. R. 
McLemore, a Confederate veteran. She is a gifted historian and has 
filled with distinction the office of Historian of the Texas Division of 
the U. D. C. 

She was Matron of Honor for the Texas Division of the United Con¬ 
federate Veterans’ Reunion, held in Atlanta in 1919. 

She is President of the Oren Roberts Chapter U. D. C., of Houston, 
Texas, one of the largest Chapters of that city or in the Texas Division 
and one of the most active. 




MRS. SUSIE TON DEE ALLEN 




REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


297 


MRS. SUSIE TONDEE ALLEN. 

Mrs. Susie Tondee Allen was born near Hayville, Schley County, 
Georgia, February 21, 1848. She is the daughter of Major C. R. Tondee 
and the granddaughter of Peter Tondee, who fought bravely in the 
Revolutionary War. 

Two of her brothers, Captain R. P. Tondee and Lieutenant W. H. 
Tondee, were both in Company B, Schley Volunteers, Seventeenth 
Georgia Regiment, Benning’s Brigade, Gordon’s Division, Longstreet’s 
Corps of Lee’s Army and they fought with Lee from the beginning to 
the end of the war. 

Her husband, Aurelius Allen, was a member of Company G, Schley 
Guards, Fifth Georgia Regiment, Jackson’s Brigade, Cheatham’s Divi¬ 
sion, Hardee’s Corps, under Joseph E. Johnstone’s Western Army. He 
never missed a battle and is now an honored member of the United 
Confederate Veterans. 

Mrs. Allen is a charter member of the Sarah E. Hornady Chapter 
U. D. C. which was organized at Ellaville, Ga., in 1905. She has been 
Treasurer of this Chapter for fourteen years, and lias filled the posi¬ 
tion so well that she has been elected to serve for life. 

During the War Between the/States Mrs. Allen was a member of 
the Woman’s Sewing Society and was active in everything pertaining 
to the welfare of the boys in gray. She has at all times shown her 
appreciation of the heroes of the Sixties and gladly aids in every move¬ 
ment to do them honor. 

She was a loyal member of the Red Cross, giving her time, means 
and strength to carry on this great work. Her interest in the work 
of the U. D. C. is unfailing and the Chapter over which she presided 
for fourteen years has felt at all points the effect of her wise guidance. 
She was a prime factor in the erection of a Confederate monument in 
her town and has always taken the keenest interest in the annual exer¬ 
cises of Memorial Day. She has taken great pleasure in preserving 
volumes of the “Confederate Veteran,” with the purpose of having 
them bound and left to her descendants. 












MRS. JOSEPH H. HEARD 


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MRS. JOSEPH H. HEARD. 

Mrs. Joseph H. Heard, daughter of Amos G. Tuttle, and Margaret 
Cloud Tuttle, and the wife of Dr. Joseph Heard, of Atlanta, Ga., was 
born in Washington, Wilkes County, Ga. She has one son, Dr. Joseph 
Heard, Jr., who is a prominent dentist in Atlanta, Ga. 

Mrs. Heard has inherited from her parents all those traits of South¬ 
ern patriotism that have made her a loyal daughter of the Confederacy. 
Joining the Atlanta Chapter when it was first organized, she has served 
as Chairman on many U. D. C. Committees and has always done her 
part with untiring zeal and faithful service. 

Perhaps the highest honor that has come to her was in her appoint¬ 
ment as Chairman of the “Thrift Committee of the Atlanta Woman’s 
Club. In a wonderful way she has organized her fifty women into a 
band of thrift workers and is showing her wonderful city what women 
can do when the time comes for them to act. 

She has taken for her example of thrift our “Mothers of the Six¬ 
ties,” and recently gave a very delightful program at the Atlanta 
Woman’s Club, which was rendered by the “Society of Pioneer 
Women.” She also planned and carried out the “Cotton Dress Pa¬ 
rade,” and has made it possible to make each woman feel that she 
has a wonderful part in our land today in making the world better. 






MRS. MARGARET CLOUD TUTTLE 


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301 


MRS. MARGARET CLOUD TUTTLE. 

Mrs. Margaret Cloud Tuttle, the mother of Mrs. Joseph Heard of 
Atlanta, Ga., was born in Charleston, S. C., in 1840. She was the wife 
of Amos G. Tuttle, who served gallantly in the Confederate Army 
throughout the war. He joined Company K, of the 45th Georgia Regi¬ 
ment, whose colors he bravely followed until the close of the war, 
though in the meantime this regiment was transferred to Torrey’s 
brigade, Cleburne’s Army of Tennessee. He was paroled at the sur¬ 
render of Joseph E. Johnstone’s Army. 

All during the years of the war Mrs. Johnson was left with her 
three little children to brave the hardships of these cruel times. When 
Sherman’s Army passed her home she, with her little family and her 
faithful slaves, bore with unfaltering courage the misfortunes that be¬ 
fell them, and found time to give her thoughtful service each day to 
the soldiers in camp and hospital. 

She was noted until the close of her life for old time Southern 
hospitality. In the last years of this mother of our Confederacy, the 
beauty of other days still clung to her and when she passed away an¬ 
other one of the rare women of the Sixties left to her children the rich 
heritage of a mother’s love and devotion. 





REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


303 


MRS. MATHIAS MENGER. 

Mrs. Mathias Menger is one of the most prominent women in all 
U. I). C. work in Texas, is in a very real sense a pioneer of Southwest 
Texas, having been born at Anderson, Grimes County, and having 
moved quite early in life to Navasota, where she has since resided. She 
is the second daughter of Mrs. J. F. Martin. 

Mrs. Menger is a loyal daughter of the Confederacy and has good 
reason to be proud of her descent from a brave Confederate soldier. 
Her father, the late J. F. Martin, gave four years of faithful and un¬ 
tiring service to the Confederacy during the War between the States 
and among the heroes in gray who followed General Robert E. Lee 
when he surrendered at Appomattox. She has served with honor to 
herself as Recording Secretary of the Texas Division of the U. D. C. 
for the past two years and still holds this office. She is a member 
of the Robert Raines Chapter of the American Revolution, where her 
work has won general recognition. 

Aside from being an important factor in the building up of her local 
Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, where she has served as 
President for several years, Mrs. Menger took an active part during the 
World War in all forms of war work. She is a faithful and active 
member of the Baptist Church, where she has been of material aid in 
the promotion of churchly activities. 





MRS. LORA GAINES GOOLSBY 





REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


305 


MRS. LORA GAINES GOOLSBY 

Mrs. Lora Gaines Goolsby was born in Scott County, Arkansas, and 
is a daughter of Hon. Francis C. and Mary Torbett Gaines. The Gaines 
and Torbett families are closely identified with the history of Western 
Arkansas, Mrs. Goolsby’s father being a Representative, and both 
grandfathers Senators. Her father was the first Democrat to be 
elected to the office of Sheriff of Scott County, after reconstruction 
days. She traces her ancestry through the famous Taylor, Pendleton 
and Botts families of Virginia, who in ’76, served the American cause 
in every capacity, from privates to members of the first Continental 
Congress. In 1812' and in the Mexican War, their descendants took up 
arms in the country’s defense. 

In the ’60’s Mrs. Goolsby’s people espoused the Southern cause. 
Her father served under Joseph E. Johnstone and three of her uncles 
were Confederate officers. 

In early girlhood she was married to A. E. Goolsby, of Confederate 
descent,, and to this union, in 1899, was born one daughter, Glenn Pen¬ 
dleton. In 1903 Mr. Goolsby died. Mrs. Goolsby remained in her 
native county for a few years, busily engaged in library work. She 
was instrumental in the organization of the State Library Association 
and for two years was the first Vice-President. 

In 1911 she moved to Fort Smith, where she became active in 
church, club and U. D. C. work. This year (1919) she is President of 
the Fort Smith District Federation of Clubs. For two years she w r as 
President of the Varina Jefferson Davis Chapter, U. D. C., of Fort 
Smith, and under her leadership this organization made fine progress. 

In 1917 she was elected State Historian of the U. D. C. and at the 
general convention in Louisville in 1918 received special mention for 
her good work. In 1919 at the State convention held in Clarksville 
that body heartily commended her work as Historian, and her program 
was unusually interesting. During the World War Mrs. Goolsby was 
Vice-Chairman of Sebastian County Council of Defense, assisted in all 
lines of war work, besides preparing a scrapbook of clippings, telling 
of the part played by Arkansans in this conflict. 

While loyal to all organizations of which she is a member, she loves 
the U. D. C. and the ideals for which it stands best of all, and has 
absolute faith in the future of her loved Southland. Her motto is: 
“Trust God, see all, nor be afraid.” 


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307 


MISS PAULINE MALLET. 

Pauline Mallet was born in Jackson, Ga., Butts County. She is the 
daughter of Emma Nutt Mallet and William Maurice Mallet. Her 
father enlisted in the Confederate Army when he was sixteen years old. 
He enlisted with Company G, 3rd Georgia Reserve, and was wounded 
at Coosa Wasclia, S. C., on the ninth of December, 1864. . 

Her grandfather, Janies B. Nutt, was killed in the battle around 
Richmond on Monday night, January 30th, 1882. 

She had two brothers in the late European war. Major Geo. E. Mai- 
let served overseas with the 31st Divisional Headquarters and Major 
Joel B. Mallet was selective service officer for the State of Georgia. 

She is an active member of the Larkin D. Watson Chapter, U. D. C., 
and is now Registrar for the chapter. 





MRS. A. J. SPROLES 






REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


309 


MRS. A. J. SPROLES. 


Mrs. Janie Donald Sproles, Recorder of Crosses for South Carolina 
Division U. D. C.’s was born at Williamston, S. C., August 5, 1861. She 
is the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel David Lewis Donald, Company 
F, Second South Carolina Volunteers. She was educated at Williamston 
Female College (now Lander College of Greenwood). October 4, 1882, she 
was married to A. J. Sproles of Greenwood, S. C., where she has re¬ 
sided to the present time, being closely identified through all these 
years with the civic, social and religious activities of the city. 

Mrs. Sproles’ principal endeavors and achievements have been in 
the work of the D. A. R. and U. I). C. organizations, she being a charter 
member of both the local chapters. She served as Regent of the Kos¬ 
ciusko Chapter, D. A. R., and as President of the Robert A. Waller 
Chapter U. D. C. during the World War. She points with pardonable 
pride to the vast amount of work accomplished by these two Chapters 
during these trying days. 

Mrs. Sproles is ever watchful of the needs and comforts of the Con¬ 
federate veterans, and never loses an opportunity in her official ca¬ 
pacity to minister to his welfare. However, her “hobby” for years 
has been that of educating by club work deserving girls of Confederate 
lineage, who otherwise would be deprived of a college education. 

MYs. Sproles’ father, Colonel D. L. Donald, made an enviable record 
in two wars. Though quite a young man he was mustered in service 
as Second Lieutenant in the Mexican War and served throughout with 
distinction. He was promoted to First Lieutenant and at the close of 
the war was given a handsome gold medal by the U. S. Government, 
which is now in the keeping of Mrs. Sproles. Colonel Donald was mar¬ 
ried in 1850 to Miss Ella Barmore of Donalds, S. C. The festivities of 
this occasion were enjoyed by the whole surrounding country; only two 
persons are now living who attended this ante-bellum wedding. 

If Colonel Donald’s Civil War record much has been written. He 
entered service as Lieutenant, was soon promoted to Captain and later 
to Lieutenant Colonel. The following is an extract from a paper on 
Colonel Donald’s war record read before the Abbeville Chapter by Mrs. 
Ella Coxe Cromer and afterwards published in several papers: 

“I think every soldier of the Confederacy and every civilian who 
knew Colonel Donald will bear me out in the assertion that he was a 
golden hearted gentleman, respected and loved by all with whom he 
came in contact. He passed away April 25, 1872, a comparatively young 
man, but he made a noble record as a brave and patriotic officer, in two 
great wars in the service of his country. He has ‘passed over the river 
and rests under the shade of the trees’ with his beloved Commander 
Robert E. Lee and his greatest Field Marshal Stonewall Jackson, 
where naught can wake them to glory again.” 






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MRS. [FRED WALTER PURDY. 

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Mrs. Fred Walter Purdy was born in Madison County, Tennessee, 
of Southern parentage and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. 
Ozier. 

Her father had four brothers who volunteered early in the service 
of the Confederacy. One never returned, having fallen on the battle¬ 
field near Atlanta. 

Mrs. Purdy is the mother of seven children, the oldest having died 
in ear’y life. Mrs. Purdy lived in the home county in Jackson, Tenn., 
until 1905, when she, with husband and children, moved to Tulsa, Okla. 
Since moving to Tulsa she has always been found ready to help in any 
good cause. Especially has she at all times taken great interest in 
seeing after the comfort of the Confederate veterans and the needy 
women of the Sixties. 

She has been a member of the Clement A. Evans Chapter U. D. C., 
practically since its organization, and served several years as an officer 
in this Chapter, in the capacity of Treasurer, Recording Secretary and 
President. In 1916 was elected State President of the Oklahoma 
Division U. D. C., after having served as Vice-President of the Division 
two terms; was re-elected President in 1917 and served until August, 
1918. At present she is State Director of Oklahoma for the Jefferson 
Davis Monument at Fairview, Ky., and also serving on the Women’s 
Relief Committee of the General U. D. C. 

Besides the time given to the work of the Daughters she has always 
been true to the trust and confidence shown her by her church in its 
various branches of work that she so much enjoys. 

During the many years that she has given her time to the church, 
State and fraternal work, she has always lived close to her family and 
has seen her children grow to maturity, and helpers in these good 
causes that have been so dear to her. 


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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


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MRS. NANCY HOWARD BUSH. 

One of the real women of the Confederacy was Mrs. Nancy Evelyn 
Howard Bush, the mother of Mrs A. O. Woodward, whose sketch fol¬ 
lows this. Nancy Evelyn Howard was born November 30, 1839. She 
was the daughter of Nathan O. Howard and Mary Lyon Howard. 
Orphaned by her mother's death when only three weeks old, she was 
carried to the home of her maternal grandparents near Lithonia, Ga. 

Thus the misfortune which befell her so early was the means of open¬ 
ing one of the most attractive chapters in her life, for here, on a plan¬ 
tation of the old-time type, she spent her early years. 

When just on the threshold of young womanhood she was married 
in November, 1859, to Brooks Bush, of Charleston, S. C., and they came 
to Atlanta, Ga., to make their home. But the war clouds were already 
over the land, and when the storm burst the young husband went to the 
front, with other gallant sons of the South, while the wife with equal 
courage stayed at home to face the trying experiences of that troubled 
time. Just a glimpse of what she had to face may be had in the fact 
that during the last years of the war she was forced to move seventeen 
times in seeking safety for herself and her young child. 

A unique and characteristic feature of this period is found in the 
devotion of the faithful negro woman who had been presented to her 
as a wedding present by her grandfather, having previously been her 
childhood companion. This attendant, “Aunt Jane,” clung steadfastly 
to her “Young Mistress” through the war period, exhibiting a devo¬ 
tion which was typical of that time and of which many similar cases 
could be recalled. When freedom came to the negroes “Aunt Jane” 
refused to accept it for herself, but remained a member of the family. 

Mrs. Bush died in 1878, and there was no more sincere mourner on 
that sad occasion than “Aunt Jane,” the faithful negro servant. Thus 
ended the life of one of those noble women whose devotion and daunt¬ 
less courage during trying times made those days immortal. But the 
patriotism which throbbed in her heart has passed from her to her 
children and from them to her children’s children, as other sketches 
which follow this will abundant’y attest. 


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MRS. A. 0. WOODWARD. 


Each one of the splendid women who are keeping alive the sacred 
traditions of the Confederacy has some special field of service in which 
her interest chiefly lies. That of Mrs. A. O. Woodward is found in 
ministering to the needs and honoring the memory of the Confederate 
veteran. 

Ida Bush was born in Atlanta, Ga., in the days that followed the 
close of the great struggle. She was a daughter of Brooks Bush and 
Nancy Howard Bush, her father being a gallant Confederate soldier 
and her mother one of the queenly daughters of the South and both 
deeply imbued with Southern sentiment and traditions. It is not 
strange that with such loyal parentage the spirit of patriotism has been 
dominant in her life. 

She was married first to Mr. Luke Gray of Atlanta, and afterwards 
to Mr. A. O. Woodward, also of Atlanta, her present husband. She has 
tw T o daughters by her first marriage, Ivy and Viola. 

Mrs. Woodward is a prominent member of the Atlanta Chapter U. 
D. C. and served for three years as Chairman of the Soldiers’ Home 
Committee of that chapter. It is in this position that she has rendered 
her splendid and untiring service to the veterans. It had been the 
practice of this committee to give entertainments to the veterans on 
Christmas day. She extended this custom to include Thanksgiving, 
Valentine and Easter parties.’ She also inaugurated the custom of 
having a committee from the chapter to attend the funeral of each of 
the veterans who dies while an inmate of the Home. 

She secured the passage by the Georgia Legislature of a bill provid¬ 
ing that each veteran in the Home be paid a pension of one dollar per 
week as spending money. Through her efforts money is raised each 
year to send these loved veterans to the State and General reunions. 

She served two years as Vice-President of the Atlanta U. D. C., a 
position which she filled with that marked dignity and grace which 
belong to her, and has done splendid work as Chairman of the Hero 
Fund Committee for veterans of the World War. 

The veterans have shown their appreciation of Mrs. Woodward by 
making her an honorary member of Camp 159 United Confederate Vete¬ 
rans. That testimonial of esteem which she prizes most highly, how¬ 
ever, is a handsome silver service presented by the veterans bearing 
the inscription, “From The United Confederate Veterans to Mrs. A. O. 
Woodward—-1920. ’ ’ 

Mrs. Woodward has served for three years at Matron of Honor for 
the North Georgia Brigade of the United Confederate Veterans and will 
accompany them to Houston this year (1920). 





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317 


GRAY POOLE 


This lovely picture is one of the active workers of the Julia Jackson 
Chapter, Children of the Confederacy of Atlanta, little Gray Poole, 
aged twelve, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William John Poole, and grand¬ 
daughter of the late Adam S. Poole, who served in the War between the 
States with honor and distinction, in the 56th Georgia Regiment. 

Her maternal grandmother is Mrs. A .0. Woodward, of Atlanta, whoso 
sketch precedes hers. Gray has the honor of being the first Child of 
the Confederacy of Atlanta to contribute to the Stone Mountain Me¬ 
morial and she goes often to the Old Soldiers’ Home and contributes to 
the pleasures of the veterans there by her fairy-like dancing. 

During the World War, whea Gray was only eleven years old, she 
organized in her grade at Washington Seminary, a Red Cross unit, which 
was the inspiration for the interest taken by the entire school in Red 
Cross work, and resulted in the winning by this school of the flag given 
for the best work done during the year. She knitted many pairs of 
socks and sweaters, doing her bit in a wonderful way. 





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319 


MRS. FRANK SAYRE LEACH. 

Blanche Shaeffer Leach, of Sedalia, Missouri, daughter of Charles A. 
and Alice E. Shaeffer and the wife of Frank Sayre Leach, is a descend¬ 
ant of the illustrious Payne and Woodville families, of Culpepper, 
Virginia, and was born in Columbus, Mississippi. 

Her father served the Confederate cause four years, Company B, 
43rd Mississippi Regiment, taking part in the battles of Kennesaw 
Mountain, Atlanta, Nashville, Vicksburg and Corinth, under Generals 
Beauregard, J. E. Johnstone, Pemberton, Bragg, Price and Stewart. 

She very ably filled the office of President for three years and 
served as Secretary for three years of Emmet McDonald Chapter 630 
United Daughters Confederacy, and four years as State Director of 
Missouri Division Children Chapters, during which latter term she 
compiled a comprehensive volume in which are recorded the various 
chapters’ activities and Confederate ancestry of Missouri’s children. 

Under her direction five hundred hand made garments constituting 
numerous layettes for French and Belgium children, formed a part of 
the Children’s Chapters contribution during the World War. 

At the Tulsa, Oklahoma, National Reunion of 1918, the unusual and 
distinguished honor of Assistant Adjutant-General United Confederate 
Veterans was conferred upon her. As a mounted officer, equipped 
with historical weapons, she served on the staff of General Haley, as 
assistant to General R. B. Coleman. She also performed the duties of 
Chaperone for Colonel Bushnell of the Second Missouri Brigade, Sons 
of Confederate Veterans. , 

She was commissioned Assistant Adjutant of Oklahoma Division, 

U. C. V., with the rank of Captain at the Ada Reunion of 1918, and 
subsequently received the commission of Lieutenant Colonel U. C. V. on 
the staff of General McAlister, under Adjutant General Coleman. 

Probably this is the first record of such appointments and coveted 
honors of the United Confederate Veterans being conferred upon a 
woman. 

As Herald upon the National Staff U. C. V., she rode beside General 

V. Y. Cook, leading the Trans-Mississippi Department in the parade of 
the 1919 Reunion at Atlanta. 

Besides the foregoing, she is a talented writer and entertaining 
speaker, possesses executive ability, was former Vice-President and is 
now Secretary of Missouri’s Fifth District Federated Clubs. 

Her literary attainments were rewarded with high honors and 
prizes in State contests, in both the United Daughters Confederacy and 
the Daughters of American Revolution. 

As official Historian, she has compiled a Red Cross history of Pettis 
County during the World War and was awarded the two bar Red Cross 
Service Medal for war activities. 

She was a member of Missouri’s Children Code Commission, and 
was selected as a delegate to Missouri’s first Democratic State conven¬ 
tion of 1920, and in which women enjoyed voting power. 












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321 


MRS. J. S. NICHOLS. 

Virginia Belle Grubbs, the daughter of William W. and Letitia Nel¬ 
son Grubbs, was born in Atlanta, Ga., December 31, 1870, where she 
has lived ever since. In 1892 she was married to James S. Nichols, of 
Roanoke, Va., and is the -mother of five daughters. 

Mrs. Nichols has always been deeply interested in Y. W. C. A. work, 
serving for several years as Secretary of that organization. She helped 
to organize, in 1902, a night school for girls in the Y. W. C. A., and has 
given much time to that cause. 

Perhaps the greatest achievement that has come out of her active 
life was the organization of the Margaret A. Wilson Chapter of the 
Children of the Confederacy. She has been the Director of this inter¬ 
esting body of children from the beginning, and through her untiring 
efforts this chapter has accomplished wonderful things. The most 
important plan for greater things this year (1920) is that of building 
a Chapter House, which will be the only Chapter House the Children 
of the Confederacy possess. They already have the lot for this given 
them—<a part of the land on “Wren’s Nest, the Home of ‘Uncle Re¬ 
mus.’ ” And they hope to have this little Chapter House completed 
in the next two years. 

The chapter gives a Christmas tree every year to the Old Soldiers’ 
Home and has made the largest contribution to this cause of any chapter 
in the State. They are ever doing thoughtful and beautiful things and 
in the summer of 1918 planted a rose garden on the lawn of “Bally 
Clare Lodge,” the country home of their namesake, Mrs Margaret A. 
Wilson. 

Mrs. Nichols is an active member of Atlanta Chapter, U. D. C., and 
one of the loyal descendants of the Confederacy. Her father belonged 
to the 42th Georgia Regiment, Company I, and just before Sherman’s 
march into Atlanta he was sent back as one of the Home Guards. 



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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 


MRS. W. L. GRICE. 

Mattie Warren Grice was born in 1840 at Perry, Houston County, 
Georgia. She was the daughter of Mrs. Jane Love Warren and Gen. 
Eli Warren, himself a soldier, who at the age of sixty-three volun¬ 
teered in a company to go to Savannah to guard the coast. She was 
married after the war to Lieutenant Colonel Washington L. Giice of 
the 45th Regiment. Of this marriage two sons were born: Josiah 
Warren Grice and Herbert Landrum Grice. On December 6th, 1882 
she moved to Hawkinsville, Georgia. 

She found at Hawkinsville no observance of Memorial Day, so she 
called the ladies together to form a Memorial Association. They met 
and elected Mrs. Grice President, an office she held until that asso¬ 
ciation merged into the U. D. C. Through the efforts of this asso¬ 

ciation the first observance of Memorial Day in Hawkinsville was 
about the year 1890. 

Mrs. Grice taught her boys to revere the Southern Confederacy. 
She refused to have them study United States history as contained 
in the books used in our schools thirty years ago. Her friends say 
she is still ‘ ‘ unreconstructed, ’ ’ though she teaches her grandchildren 
to be loyal and true to their flag. Her request is that a Confederate 
flag be placed in her casket over her heart when she takes the eternal 

rest, so great is her love for the cause for which the “Boys in Gray” 

fought. 

Extracts from “War Reminiscences,” written by Mrs. Grice: 

‘ ‘ Perry responded at once to the call for soldiers, the first com¬ 
pany leaving in the spring of 1861. The Southern Rights Guards was 
the name it bore. A large crowd met the day they left to bid them 
good-bye. Many eyes were wet with tears and hearts were aching, 
for no one knew the future. Before the first year passed away many 
were brought home lifeless. Olr the sadness of those days! But 
work for the living must be done. Tents were made and clothing of 
all kinds. When blankets were no longer to be had the carpets were 
taken up, ripped to pieces, washed and made into comfortable blankets. 
Looms and spinning wheels were brought out and put to use. How the 
young folks enjoyed learning to spin, knit and weave! When the 
boys were fortunate enough to get a furlough how each person vied 
with another to give pleasure to them. Picnics, fishing parties and 
old fashioned evening parties. 

“When the war was over things looked very dark, almost hopeless 
to the returned soldiers as well as to all Southerners. But the same 
principles that were so deeply rooted in their souls when they started 
out to fight for the right still abode witli them. With the assistance 
of determined Southern women they went to work to rebuild the beau¬ 
tiful but desecrated Southland. They have done well. Nothing could 
have been better done. Their sons and daughters caught their spirit, 
and Georgia is as proud of her sons today as she was in the sixties.” 


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THE LADIES’ MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION 

OF ATHENS. 

MONUMENT TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD. 

In 1866, just after the surrender, the members of the Soldiers’ Aid 
Society, hearing of the suggestion made by Mrs. Williams, the Secretary 
of the Columbus, Ga., Society in a letter sent out by her society, that 
a day be appointed to be observed throughout the South as Memorial 
Day and flowers be laid upon the graves of our Confederate dead met 
and reorganized as the Ladies’ Memorial Association with the definite 
object of collecting the dead bodies of our fallen brave, erecting a 
monument to them, and observing annually with appropriate exercises 
the 26th of April, as had been suggested, and upon that day laying the 
laurel wreaths and fresh spring flowers upon the graves o'f those who 
had so bravely stood for the principles dear to every Southern heart. 

They elected their officers and began at once to do the work that 
had been outlined for them. 

OFFICERS. 

Mrs. Laura Cobb Rutherford, President. 

Mrs. Augusta Clayton King, Secretary and Treasurer. 

Mrs. Howell Cobb, First Vice President. 

Mrs. Young L. G. Harris, Second Vice President. 

Mrs. Rutherford suggested to the Association that a subscription be 
started for a monument to be erected to all the soldiers from Clarke 
County, who had been killed in battle. (Clarke County then em¬ 
braced what is now Oconee County.) The ladies eagerly seized the sug¬ 
gestion but the men discouraged it. Thev said they were under parole 
and were pledged not to aid or encourage any movement of that kind. 
The women said they were under no parole, so they began to have 
entertainments such as bazaars, May parties, plays, etc. 

Mrs. Rutherford knew no such word as fail—nothing daunted her. 
She was nobly aided by her corps of assistants, members of the society 
and friends. 

When the necessary funds were in hand the order was given to Mr. 
Markwalter, of Augusta, for the monument, a shaft of pure Italian 
marble. 

On June 3rd, 1872, it was unveiled and dedicated—A. S. Erwin, of 
Athens, a prominent lawyer, making the address. 

The base of the monument is granite, formed by a series of steps, 
on which rests a tall marble column, so divided as to combine solidity 
and grace. Flags, wreaths and military symbols adorn the upper por¬ 
tions of the pedestal, while above them are urns and flowers. The 
names of officers and soldiers of Clarke County who fell in the Con¬ 
federate struggle, are inscribed on the lower facades. Over this section 
of the monument rises the main division of the column, with its impos- 



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ing scroll work, containing four inscriptions, one on each side.” One 
of the fronts is simply inscribed to ‘‘the Confederate Dead; the second 
record the name of the Memorial Association, while the third and 
fourth have the following inscription: 

“True to the Soil that gave them birth and reared them Men; True 
to the traditions of their Revolutionary ancestors of high renown and 
hallowed worth; alike by instinct and by principle cherishing the sen¬ 
timents of home and country and the allegiance thereunto due as one 
and inseparable:—These Heroes—Ours in the unity of blood, ours in 
the unity of patriotism struggled for the rights of states as held by 
the fathers of the republic and by Hie fathers, as a sacred trust unto 
them bequeathed.” 

On the fourth side the inscription reads: 

‘ ‘ The measures of their years suddenly completed in the fatal issues 
of battle, reached the consummation of earthly glory by their death, 
last and holiest office of human fidelity possible to brave men, attest¬ 
ing their sincerity, vindicating their honor, and sealing their integrity, 
they won their title to an immortality of love and reverence.” 

The inscription was written by Rev. A. A. Lipscomb, then Chancellor 
of the University. 

The monument is thirty or forty feet high. The amount paid foi it 
was $4,444.44. 

This is the monument that Henry Grady alluded to in his speech at 
Boston. His father is one of those to whom the monument was erected, 
and alluding to this fact, he said: “In my native town of Athens is a 
monument that crowns its central hill—a plain white shaft. Deep cut 
into its shining side is a name dear to me above the names of men— 
that of a brave and simple man who died in brave and simple faith. 
Not for all the glories of New England, from Plymouth Rock all the 
way, would 1 exchange the heritage he left me in his soldier’s death, 
and to the foot of that monument I shall send my children and my 
children’s children.” 

The noble women of the Ladies’ Memorial Association, who toiled 
for several years to accomplish this work had the satisfaction of know¬ 
ing that the dead heroes of Clarke County at least had that honor paid 
them, and paid them promptly. No words written or spoken can ex¬ 
press their written praise half so eloquently as the silent memorial of 
their ‘ ^ove and Reverence,” for our glorious dead. 

The names of the Confederate Dead to whom this monument was 
erected are engraved upon its sides. 








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